Very peaceful night considering we were
in a truck stop & we awoke to a heavy frost & blue skies.
The
clocks have moved on an hour so are are back to slightly later
evenings. Sunny days just give everywhere a cheerier feel, everywhere
looks more rustic, stacked up hay bales & chopped wood piles,
horses pulling old wooden carts & people pushing hand carts. Many
people trying to flag down traffic for a lift to the next town, there
are many abandoned decaying industrial buildings & railway tracks
that we're never sure if they still function. Mostly though its
agricultural but with much smaller fields than Hungary & a lot of
small roadside stalls of people selling their own produce.
The road
was not too bad though only single lane & with many trucks or
speeding & overtaking drivers. I seemed to be the only one
driving within the speed limits in towns & villages & would
invariably end up with a queue behind me until I pulled over. We
eventually ended up going for about 30 miles on a very empty but good
stretch of Motorway though we were starting to get worried as there
were no exits for such a long way. We decided to explore a bit and go
cross country on what looked like small sealed roads which they were
but as we got more remote the tarmac seemed to be more covered in
mud, I guess from vehicles & carts from the fields. There was
little traffic on the road but it was slow with many bends & we
weren't progressing very far. Finding ourselves on a quiet road we
found a place to pull off for coffee & decided to stop the night
a couple of hundred metres down a firm track hopefully without
passing traffic.
The temperature quickly dropped to around 2C as the
sun was setting without a cloud in the sky & showing a sliver of
a new moon.
We have been so glad of the Webasto Diesel heating, it
saves all the problems of carrying enough gas & has always been
very economical & it's great being able to turn it on whilst
still in bed in the morning. Both our 5 year old leisure batteries
continue to give us the electrical power we need though the solar
panel doesn't get much charge now the sun is so low, but as we are
driving most days it's not a problem. Most of the electric power
still seems to go to run the fridge though I sometimes wonder if it's
actually warmer in the fridge than in the van through the night.
Not a sound in the night but -1.6c our coldest so far & we woke up in thick fog & this view out of the window
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