Start

Trip starts at 09:00 🎉☺️
First stretching stop 👌

Travel gifts and refreshments 😂

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Cannot meet colleagues in Marbella, without the traditional Vana Tallinn with me…
Fuel top up

Waze advertised diesel price is 1.33€ 😳
Obviously mistaken - correct price was 1.88€ 🤦♂️
Warsaw

DAY 1 complete
Goal:
arrive to Warsaw - achieved
Found a roadside “apartment hotel” for a surprising 30€ night. Huge room with kitchenette and bath tubLue lisää
Coffee + fuel = Circkle K

Travel tip: best coffee is always the one you are used to… ☺️
Filling up is confusing, as BOTH units are uncommon for me - dm3 instead of liters and Zl instead of € 😂
On our way to Vienna!!!
Czech, mate!

The scenery gets better and better… and as soon as you’re off the highway, well-equipped gas stations are harder and harder to find. Major highway congestion in Poland slowed us down nearly anLue lisää
Full bloom

Just had to stop for a 📷
Forgot the sunscreen…

A place for the man to have a 😴😀
Viin - Vienna - Wien

Made it finally to Vienna!
The roads were twisty and slow + there was occasionally heavy rain.
The small Czech villages on the way were beautiful!
After 2 days’ diet of nuts and sandwiches in theLue lisää
Day 2 complete

As the day draws to an end, we found this nice hotel for stay:
http://www.booking.com/Share-FyOlfQ
Tomorrow we plan to briefly look around Vienna and then set our sights for Verona!
😴😴😴
Breakfast and coffee

Good morning!
Sleeping score 100! ☺️
As the hotel breakfast was independently reviewed as not worth the price, we shot out to explore the neighborhood. Turned out this hotel Mercure is very wellLue lisää
Morning in Vienna

Vienna was too exciting to just drive by, so we spent a few hours walking around the old town…
Highway to Graz

We were struggling with Waze all day. It simply refused to take us via the main road, trying to divert us off the highway all the time and offering ridiculous arrival times. Finally decided to skipLue lisää
Verona and Bellagio still out of reach

By the time we crossed the border to Italy, it became clear that driving for another 5 hours was going to be too much. So we made corrections and chose something unexpected along the way.
This is ILue lisää
To Verona and beyond…

We really enjoyed this place! Fantastic hosts, excellent wine from their own yard (Comelli). That was a gem to find.
As a bonus, good fuel prices off the main highways 😉
Half a day in Verona

Verona, Verona, Veroona…. ☺️
It was dribbling rain all the way and all day, but it was relatively warm.
Enjoyed the walk and the old town, LOTS of people on a FridayLue lisää
Change of plans

One of the benefits of an open ended trip is that you can always remain flexible and adapt to the conditions.
Speaking of weather in Verona and elsewhere, we decided to skip the Garda and Como areasLue lisää
Next stop Genova

It was really tricky to get down to the ground in Genova, as the main route is on an elevated highway through the city. There was a total catacomb of a parking house, where we could not find a placeLue lisää
Menton

Made it to the shore of the Ligurian Sea!
We tried to plot our route without toll roads, to see more, but at the end of the day available time makes the choices for you - toll roads vs small onesLue lisää
Monaco

Next logical must-see place was Monaco. It is a city-nation most densely populated in the world (over 18,500 residents per sq km).
Driving your car in Monaco is not for the faint of heart, itLue lisää
Night in Antibes

When we left Monaco, it was already late and we yet did not have a place to stay overnight (as we were not sure how far we will drive).
Nothing caught our eye in Nice, so we drove straight throughLue lisää
Barcelona

The trip from Antibes to Barcelona took about 7 hours (650km) and tolls were around 21€.
There were traffic jams when approaching Barcelona which delayed the arrival some 15 min.
At first we triedLue lisää
Sitges - Hotel Medium Romantic

There’s a hotel a short drive (with toll, still) outside of Barcelona with an intriguing name - Hotel Medium Romantic (dunno why “medium”, I’d say it was “very” romantic 😂
It is pureLue lisää
A hidden gem

The internet almighty helped find this truly unique stay in a small town we didn’t know existed a few hours ago ☺️
Welcome to Dènia in the province of Alicante, with 41,733 friendlyLue lisää