Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner in Three Capitals

[Nelson Atwell]

Drove from Vienna to Bratislava, Slovakia yesterday as planned. On the way, we noticed how close Budapest, Hungary was, so we decided to go there as well, since we were only two hours away by Autobahn. Breakfast in Vienna, lunch in Bratislava and Supper in Budapest...I would have never dreamed I could do this.



Photos will follow at a later date. So far Budapest was the most impressive this trip, but we have barely seen Vienna. The next two days will be busy here.



The Mazda 3 is awesome. The winding roads through the Tatry mountains were a fun drive and of course it had no problems at all on the autobahn of Hungary at 150 km (90+ mph). Their speed is no unlimited, so it will be nice to see what happens when I go to Germany on the 17th to catch a hop to get my daughter in the US. At 90, it feels like I am barely even pushing it and the rpms are around 3200 in 5th.

 

[LaRue Medlin]

Hey Nelson,,,, I thought it was BREAKFAST, DINNER and SUPPER?:lol::lol::lol:



I know how cool that was. I did something like that a few times when I was stationed in Germany looooooong time ago.....

 

[Paul Maurer 2]

Very cool- great idea!

 

[Nelson Atwell]

I'm back in Poland and exhausted. I put a few photos up, but the rest will wait until this weekend.

 

[Kevin Palmer]

Nelson, that is a pretty impressive accomplishment...

 

[Bill V]

Nelson, I think I once did that too. Had breakfast in Madison (capital of Wisconsin), had dinner in St. Paul (capital of Minnesota), and had lunch in Tomah (which has a capital 'T' in it).



That counts, right?

 

[Nelson Atwell]

Yeah Bill...I think it counts.

 

[Bill V]

So what do you have to do at the borders between these countries? Does it go pretty quickly? Does the fact that you're not only not from either of those countries, but not even from Europe, complicate the border crossing at all? I know how slow things can go at the US/Canada and US/Mexico borders, I can't imagine doing several such crossings in a single day.

 

[Nelson Atwell]

They are all EU so there usually aren't any stamps involved at all. The toughest border to cross is the Polish one. I think they have some Soviet-trained border agents still on duty. I only had one long delay (over 10 minutes) delay, and that was on my first trip leaving Poland. We crossed at a very isolated post at midnight. They were either bored or suspicious of a US and Polish citizen traveling together so late at night. They asked a lot of questions and even gave me a little trouble with my car, but fortunately my translator helped me get through it.