Taxi to Bamako

Hi All
Well , we're finally on our way. For our final two nights in the UK we stayed in an Hotel in Hythe near the channel tunnel. Trish chose it and her nack hasn't left her. Do you remember the Hotel in the Shining? Well move that hotel to the English seaside out of season and you get the idea. We were the only guests. The heating went off in the afternoon and didn't come back on until late evening. Breakfast was full english but I think it had been cooked the night before and stored in the fridge.Hotel last night in Germany was fantastic by comparison. Tonight we are in another hotel not too far from the Austrian border. We hope to arrive in Budapest tomorrow afternoon. (Only another three hundred miles or so to go).The taxi has been great so far (touch wood). Only problem has been the crap windscreen wipers and the fact that the washers freeze up every few minutes inspite of the fact that we now have pure undiluted antifreeze screen wash in the bottle.It's now snowing heavily again outside. Hope we can get out o9f here in the morning. We are in a town called Passau probably about 100 miles or so from Vienna.We'll update the blog again when we get to Budapest.All for nowG & T