Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Team Crisis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!







OK! I can no longer keep this bottled in: so Osama and Nadim hit it off and initially I was pleased with that, but it is becoming a little annoying; examples are abound: one of them sneezes and the other goes “bless you”, “are you ok?”, “oh the allergies, must be hard”, “sa77a” while when I sneeze my lungs out, the conversation goes on as if nothing happened, well, one of them may have to repeat his last sentence with an irritated tone for the rude interruption by my sneeze. I first noticed this, when while driving the stick shift car, eating peanuts, drinking coke and trying to take some pictures (I have to do everything on this trip), I choke on a peanut; naturally, no one notices, and the conversation goes on, while I had to perform the Heimlich maneuver on myself, and continue to eat peanuts, switch gears, take pictures ..etc. To top it off, 10 minutes after the peanut incident, while I am driving on a beautiful road in Serbia heading to the Bulgarian border, we notice the beauty of the valley; next I am parked on the side of this single lane heavily trafficked road, my life on the line, while they are pausing for each other (see pictures). And finally, we drive into a tunnel and I literally can’t see anything because the headlights are so dim, a few hours later at night while Osama is driving, Nadim starts revealing certain buttons in the car that tremendously enhances the situation. Why this was not revealed when I almost ran into a semi inside the tunnel is beyond me. Oh Roy,
where art thou?

Rebuttal: Pure paranoia! Of course this can only come from someone who can only shift a stick and nothing else. The responsibility for keeping the route is with others because Jamal cannot read a map or read road signs, including those indicating the maximum speed. Can anybody be surprised if a “Heimlich maneuver” is necessary when you eat peanuts, drink coke, snap pictures and drive at the same time??!! Actually you don’t need the fog light when you enter a 15 inch tunnel in broad day light and forget that you are wearing sunglasses. I hope the point is clear?

Monday, May 2, 2011

Zrenjanin - Third Day



We had our wonderful guided tour through the city. This is a picture of our heroes Banu and Zoran in front of the statute of the local hero of the city of Zrenjanin.


Third day task completed.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Zrenjanin welcomes Petra Odyssey

Our fabulous hosts the Pavlovs: Branislava, Zoran ,Igor and Ivan along with their friend Misa warmly welcomed us and prepared a feast in our honour! Tomorrow we will be escorted around Zrenjanin.

On the way in Serbia

Heavy rain cannot stop a determined team from pursuing their destination!




Budapest



Budapest. Rain but spirits still high. Lunch at the citadel.

On the way



Near Bad Tötz. Bavaria

Vienna

Arrived safely in Vienna. 18 degrees and a bit windy.
Had a very enjoyable evening with friends and family living in Vienna.
Sending photos via mobile phone from Vienna is exorbitant and will be posting photos as soon as:
a) we find a suitable USB cable (So we forgot to bring one!)
b) a computer that takes our chip card.
c) It's no longer Sunday and we can buy the necessary equipment.

Next station is Budapest.
(Here are the pictures after solving the technical problems)