Bodyache - Europe Road Trip 2016

Places we visited:
Budapest, Hungary
Pula, Croatia
Rovinj, Croatia
Piran, Slovenia
Venice, Italy
Lake Garda, Italy
Innsbruck, Austria
Vaduz, Lichtenstein
Lake Bodensee, Switzerland
Oberstdorf, Germany
Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany
Prague, Czech Republic
Krakow, Poland
Tatra mountains, Slovakia
And many tiny places on the road, places we ended up stopping for ice cream, pictures, gas and food!

We were a little unsure about our plans for the Summer. We had talked about making a trip somewhere in Europe. Or Tokyo. Or The Maldives. But there were also those questions about rain seasons, time, time difference, my work and Arno's military service. So we decided that the best place to go would be Europe. So we decided to rent a car, buy ticket's to fly to Budapest and book the first hotel there. Nothing else planed really. We had some countries and cities we wanted to go and places we wanted to see, but nothing final. With those 12 and half days booked for travelling we kind of just went as we wanted.

Every morning as we woke up we had no clue about the coming day or where we would spend the night. But I mean how awesome was it? The freedom. To take every day as it came. To be impulsive, look for the small towns on the map that seemed to be the most authentic and interesting. To sit down on a beach, looking to the other side of the bay, to the side of Slovenia and just decide to drive there for some more sunshine. To find the weirdest accommodation in the middle of nowhere in a small town on the mountains. To randomly bump into a man who offered us a boat for rent and after 10 minutes be cruising around the beautiful Garda. To get stuck in traffic, which leads us to driving down from the highway to stop at this little town with the cheapest ever stake restaurant where no one spoke English. To drive down the coast in the middle of the night for some night sky shots. To find a waterfall in the middle of a forest and sit down for breakfast on a big rock next to it. To find a playground while looking for a gas station on the mountains and just fooling around. And everything else. We didn't plan a lot of things, like visiting the Lake Garda until we found a cheap hotel there. We weren't gonna stop in Prague but it was a good pit stop on our way to Krakow. We had not planned taking a tour through Lichtenstein or Switzerland until one night in Croatia I just said aloud that maybe we could do it. But I was so happy to end up all those places.

Our 12 days felt like a forever. Yet every day was so fresh, so fun and so breathtaking! I wouldn't give up a second. We saw so much it's crazy and experienced places I've never been before. 7 new countries added to my list of places I've visited! And 11 countries was our total number on that trip. Yes it was hard to come back to the normal life with 8-16 workdays, emails, paperwork etc. But we never stop travelling and planing. We have done some more trips since returning from our road trip but I'm slow with editing, sorry :) More coming soon!