Day 7
Budapest, Hungary to Innsbruck, Austria -- 730km
Next morning it was a problem - well, not a big problem - to pack everything my daughter had put together during the school year. Being in arts doesn’t help, either, lots of materials. One bag was supersize.
With everything settled we left Budapest for the journey home. Of course we had a lot to talk so I followed the GPS instructions to leave Budapest and get on the highway in Austria direction, not paying much attention. But after a while I noticed the signs were not saying Austria as before and my wife noticed the huge amount of km shown in the GPS - we were heading to Slovenia! Stop in the next service area, time to study the Europe paper map, decide to go back following the road signs and not the GPS. We lost 2 hours with this error. That was going to cost us the typical dinner I was willing for as we arrived at the hotel up in the mountains after the kitchen was closed. At the time I couldn’t figure out why that happened.
But the highway was nice, as we entered Austria there were more and more mountains, no more problems with directions, and as we kept going we discovered that the highway inside Austria from east to west cross a bit of Germany. I hadn’t downloaded that map! That was why the GPS tried to send me by a different route - it had no way of knowing the route in Germany. Well, it was a way of trying the 'No speed limit' in Germany... nice!
The hotel is a typical mountain hotel full of charme. The view from my room was beautiful.
One thing I enjoy in hotels is breakfast although sometimes a bit expensive. Here it was worth, a breakfast with a view.
It was a long day driving all the time and after a sandwich and using the hotel free wifi, time to rest.
In the route I put gasoline in the car in an area and it was the only petrol station that didn’t accept my cards; I had to pay in cash; I didn't understand the problem as the lady there only talked in German. So a tip - always carry enough money to pay for the gas or else you may be in trouble!
Budapest, Hungary to Innsbruck, Austria -- 730km
Next morning it was a problem - well, not a big problem - to pack everything my daughter had put together during the school year. Being in arts doesn’t help, either, lots of materials. One bag was supersize.
With everything settled we left Budapest for the journey home. Of course we had a lot to talk so I followed the GPS instructions to leave Budapest and get on the highway in Austria direction, not paying much attention. But after a while I noticed the signs were not saying Austria as before and my wife noticed the huge amount of km shown in the GPS - we were heading to Slovenia! Stop in the next service area, time to study the Europe paper map, decide to go back following the road signs and not the GPS. We lost 2 hours with this error. That was going to cost us the typical dinner I was willing for as we arrived at the hotel up in the mountains after the kitchen was closed. At the time I couldn’t figure out why that happened.
But the highway was nice, as we entered Austria there were more and more mountains, no more problems with directions, and as we kept going we discovered that the highway inside Austria from east to west cross a bit of Germany. I hadn’t downloaded that map! That was why the GPS tried to send me by a different route - it had no way of knowing the route in Germany. Well, it was a way of trying the 'No speed limit' in Germany... nice!
The hotel is a typical mountain hotel full of charme. The view from my room was beautiful.
It was a long day driving all the time and after a sandwich and using the hotel free wifi, time to rest.
In the route I put gasoline in the car in an area and it was the only petrol station that didn’t accept my cards; I had to pay in cash; I didn't understand the problem as the lady there only talked in German. So a tip - always carry enough money to pay for the gas or else you may be in trouble!
If you used NDrive... :P
ReplyDeleteLies, lies! I didn't have that much stuff to bring back!!
ReplyDelete(glad there are no evidence :D)