Okay, time for my photos! I finally found some time to organize everything today. It's a mix of camera photos (all taken in raw and edited) and phone photos (which I just converted from that bullshit *.HEIC standard to *.jpg, and that's it), you can tell them apart by the aspect ratio: 4:3 are phone pics, 3:2 camera pics. I didn't take nearly as much photos as last year, but I still took some highlights. And nope, I'm still not exactly comfortable with photos of people, so that's why there won't be much people in my photos.
Okay, starting with
Day 0. I took an overnight bus from Zagreb to Plzeň, with a 5-hour stop in Prague. Despite that day being hot as hell (36 °C IIRC), and sunlight being strong, I went on a sightseeing tour of Prague with my camera:
Yeah, I had to live up to my forum nickname and take a picture or two (or three) of trams in Prague. Also, this time I got to ride in them!
Anyway, we stayed in Plzeň that night, while I have no pics of Plzeň, rest assured it was a nice town with slightly confusing traffic and decent cuisine. I do have a pic of
@Adrian's Donkervoort in the morning of
Day 1 taken in front of the hotel/boarding house/whatever:
The whole
day 1 seemed pretty uneventful and easy-paced to me, apart from a certain Saab breaking down and a very short 'moment' in a Mustang, that nevertheless woke me up from light sleep.
On
day 2 I decided to take a ride in
@Brotan's MR2, which led to a visit to what looked like a slightly run-down US car salesroom. Interesting place to take pictures, that's for sure:
Have some cows from that day as well, as well as a group of people standing around doing nothing:
The MR2 decided to blend in with other colorful Japanese roadsters:
The rest of
day 2 went pretty smoothly, with the Saab leaving for Maribor before the others, taking a faster route, and arriving there before the others. That means we ended up in Maribor in the evening, where we had loads of meat, especially for non-Balkan standards. Others were pretty full after that night!
Day 3 meant going from Maribor to Villach through B-roads in northern Slovenia. That was interesting, because some of the roads were not paved. Of course, the selection of cars, as evident from some pictures above, wasn't exactly ideal for those roads. Nevertheless, we stopped at Solčava, a place in Slovenia near the Austrian border, for lunch that day. I still remember the looks on other people's faces when I ordered fried calamari with french fries. It's a normal thing to order in this part of the world!
And then we reached Austria:
And after some time, reached Villach, where we stayed for the night:
On
day 4 we woke up in the morning only to find out that
@Adrian's Donkervoort left a black spot underneath. Dismantling the front panels, it turned out it was leaking coolant, but what was only drops in the morning turned to a constant stream of coolant by noon. That meant taking the front panels off again and MacGyvering the problem in front of a DIY store:
After a couple of hours of fiddling with it, the car was finally ready to go. I went with
@MXM this time, in a Clio he rented. I do have to admit, the Clio wasn't as fun as I assume some other cars would've been in the Italian Alps, but it got us through twisty Italian B-roads to Belluno, Italy, in the end, which is all that matters. We ended up in industrial part of the city, which surprised us with a pretty fine restaurant where we had some excellent pizza. No pictures of that from me, but I'm sure other have them.
That leads me to
day 5, the day when we headed to Stelvio. On the way there, we took a look at some dams:
And then we stopped at some scenic view which I honestly can't remember much of, other than that I had to take pictures of:
Anyway, the next pictures I have are the top of the Stelvio pass:
An obligatory group shot:
And that's it for the Roadtrip from me. I'll post the Ringmeet shots as soon as the photo thread for that is open. Or I might as well open it myself.
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