Monday 7th October 2024
Day 24
Tonight we are in the 7th country so far on our travels, we hadn’t intended to travel into Austria today but sadly the stopover we had selected turned out not to be worth the money so we moved on.
I had selected a route from Bled towards the pass into Austria to be a scenic route rather than take the main road, and boy did it live up to its expectations. I’m not sure others in a motorhome have travelled along it, as it was challenging but beautiful.
Without a video camera it is impossible to give an impression of the narrow roads we took through villages the hairpin bends,steep ascent and descent etc all I can say is it was fun.
We had planned to do a short trip today but as I said things changed and we headed off up the road that took us into Austria, again a challenging road, not particularly narrow but it climbed steeply and I was using second and third gear regularly, we eventually plateaued out at the top.
Leaving the car park we drove through a tunnel and came upon border control and we had to have our passports checked, this I believe wouldn’t have happened in the past, but European countries are beginning to tighten up.
As we drove on we got held up at some roadworks on a rather steep section, they were repairing the road on a hairpin bend and had stopped the traffic in both directions, the woman in the car in front got out and smoked a cigarette we were there so long. Setting off again wasn’t easy as we hadn’t built up any speed or revs.
Eventually after a long and steep descent we arrived in Ferlach where we are staying tonight. Peter and Alison went for a bike ride and we went for a good walk around town, rewarding ourselves with a drink and ice cream.
There are three museums in town that looked interesting but sadly they weren’t open, one was devoted entirely to its history and production of hunting rifles.
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