Now time to get down the mountain

Day 9

 Tansfagarason Highway, Romania to Russo in Bulgaria

Everyone awoke and checked around to see that they and their belongings were intact. All ok for us, thankfully. We had finally drifted off to sleep as the storm passed. I went around then campers to see how everyone had faired and some had abandoned tents to sleep in their vehicles. Team Trauma had 4 of their crew sleeping in various positions in their Ambulance. I may not have mentioned them before. They arrived to meet us all in Hungary as were not able to set off until Wednesday. They had the Ambulance donated to them! 

In general Camp Windy survived well, some did find themselves floating on water but as we said it's all part of the "wild camping" experience. We would love to wild camp again if there is an opportunity at the remaining travel destinations along our journey. As usual though Steve isn't giving much away.

Going down the other side of the mountain was stunning too but in a different way. Still winding and steep but greener with waterfalls. Several tunnels to navigate and Nik has developed an urge to turn on the blue LED lights and siren. At least people should see and hear us. The mountain was steep and Olly's breaks are not great so brake fade set in fairly quickly. A wait in a lay by to cool down the breaks was just search of Bulgarianmmwhat Olly needed. This also gave me opportunities to take pictures.

We came across the amazing feet of engineering which was a gigantic dam, we couldn't find a parking spot for Olly. She doesn't slide gracefully into tight spaces. There were lots of people with cameras and We have some pic's. someone said it made their head spin just looking down at the sheer drop. In the uk there would be barriers and you would have to pay to take a look.  

We headed for The Bulgarian boarder, over the river Danube. It's not at all blue by the way. Our first impressions of Bulgaria from the journey from border to Hotel approx 25 mins, was that this looked like an Easter block country. More Of what we had estimated to have been in previous places visited. Many teams headed out into the town in search of a restaurant, returning much latter with sore heads but having danced along with the locals to some Bulgarian music. We took advantage of a nice meal in our hotel food. Kate had booked us in somewhere earlier Hotel Anna. Very friendly staff and our waiter couldn't couldn't do enough for us. 

Tomorrow we're headed to .............