Near Mesokoveshden, Hungary

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Left Germany, crossed into Austria. Claire and Mark decided to leave Germany as they found the Mercedes advertising just too much. Then Stephen and I woke up. This was around 12pm. (We know the local time, hurrah!) We are informed (and there is photo evidence to prove it) that we missed quite beautiful scenery as we left Germany. Lunch on the go – this we knew would be a heavy driving day, and so we have kept moving. Almost directly through Austria, stopping only to refuel and swap drivers, we hit a traffic jam leading out of the country, into Hungary. We believe that this is due to the Hungarian Grand Prix scheduled for tomorrow – I’m sure Mark would really like to be watching tomorrow, but Claire would never allow it!

The first bad weather hit us after we trawled through Budapest, Hungary’s capital – a quick but torrential burst of rain. We saw one nasty car wreck during this time but no one appeared to have been hurt. Not much later the rain was gone.

The most important in-car achievements were a three-hundred point win at Scrabble by Claire against Stephen and my completion of Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I’m glad both Joyce and I got that out of our systems.

We are now looking for our campsite which is near Mesokoveshden. The place name has vowel accents all over it – I have not attempted them. Our Hungarian friends, the Tőroks informed us that it was pronounced thus: Me-su-ku-ve-sh-t.