(Daniel) We awoke to the alarm at 6.30am this morning, and found it very hard to get out of bed. Outside, the trailer tent and water tanks had frozen solid, the ladder was coated in ice too but closed up without fuss, as did the rooftent. We all got up and moved around as quickly as possible, packing away everything and digging out the snow from under the wheels so that we could drive out of the wood and back onto the track to set off. As we drove out onto the road it became apparent that the road was completely iced over, and every corner that I came to was potentially a situation where we could slide, even second gear had the wheels skidding on some angles. I took the road very slowly, and it took us around an hour to get back down to a safe altitude. Once on the road proper, we picked up the pace, and I got into long distance mode, driving nearly 400 miles on bad roads all the way to Bulgaria, and then on the much better roads of Bulgaria to Sofia.

As we drove into Sofia, I phoned Tony, our contact who had arranged to meet us for dinner, we met him within 5 minutes of arriving in Sofia, and followed him in his car to a restaurant around the corner, where we had a wonderful traditional Bulgarian meal, with all sorts of meats and salad, accompanied by a bottle of Bulgarian wine, and some Raki to finish. I must thank Christophe at this point, who arranged for us to meet Tony, Christophe is a good friend of mine, who has a business in Bulgaria buying and selling properties on the countries rising housing market. If you are ever interested in this opportunity, you should check out his website to get in touch. www.newestate.biz

After dinner we thanked Tony and headed back out onto the motorway, after a few miles we stopped at a lorry park, and camped up for the night.

Distance Driven 600km

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