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Western Europe from south to north or summer holidays 2009

11.08. 2009

So, I'm starting to write another report on a summer trip by car. This time we radically changed the route, the reason for which was the desire to spend at least a week at sea (we have not had a beach holiday since the distant 2005, when we visited the wonderful country of Greece). The real estate in Bulgaria acquired last year in the form of apartments in the Sunny Beach region (Burgas region, Kobleshkovo village, The Vineyards complex) solved the problem of choosing a place for the sea part of our voyage. I will not touch on the topic of buying property abroad in general and in Bulgaria in particular in my story, here, as they say, it depends on taste and color ...In addition, this topic deserves a separate story, maybe I will write if I have time.


Here I will only briefly describe that region of this wonderful country of the former Warsaw Pact, where we were and now, I hope, we will visit every year. Apparently Bulgaria will become the starting (or final, depending on the route) our point in Europe. The situation is still complicated by the absence of this country in the Schengen agreement, but I think the Bulgarians will soon solve this problem and it will be possible to travel all over Europe with one visa. Switzerland has finally solved the problem, but more on that later, but for now the general provisions.

Characters: as usual, a family of three, namely my parents, and your obedient servant, still single. And just like last year, the road-tested Audi Q7 3.0 TDi (2007) with a mileage of 56.000 km at the start of the trip.

Our indispensable electronic assistant, the Garmin Nuvi 610 navigator, for its special “stupidity” received the affectionate nickname “Goblin” last year, its younger brother Eplutus navigator acts as an insurer if the Goblin suddenly surrenders. Financial components - Raiffissen Bank credit cards. Last year, we were accompanied by a VTB card, but it expired, and the bank refused to renew, due to the termination of work with individuals. This did not upset us much, Raiffeisen cards also work stably, so far I had only one problem - when paying for Minoan Lines ferry tickets online, but a call to the bank solved this problem in a matter of minutes (thanks to the teller girls).

Route: for the first time in our lives, we decided to cross the border of our Motherland relatively close to home (and not in the Leningrad region, as usual).

Unfortunately (to the deepest, I can say frankly) we don’t have Finland side by side, there is only Ukraine and Belarus, and since the path through Belarus seems to be not very convenient for us, it seemed that the choice fell on Ukraine by itself. Looking at the map, it is clear that in order to get into the much-desired Bulgaria, we need to cross as many as FOUR borders, namely the Russian-Ukrainian, Ukrainian-Moldavian, Moldovan-Romanian and Romanian-Bulgarian (the last pure formality, I can assure you). But for everyone else…. but more on that later. So, in Bulgaria we rested, for example, we swam in the sea, ate delicious fish, this is all understandable, but our souls of true Travelers rushed forward, into the unknown, to where we had not yet been (or where we had been and we VERY liked it). So further following developed somehow by itself by mutual agreement.


So, the route: Lipetsk - Odessa - Moldova (transit) - Romania (transit) - Bulgaria (8 days of rest) - Greece (transit) - Italy (Milan, 3 nights) - Switzerland (Geneva, 2 nights) - France (Paris, 3 nights) - Germany (Hamburg, 1 night) - Finland (Transit) - Tver - Lipetsk. With the road and ferries - 23 days of travel.

Preparatory work: this time we decided to get visas ourselves, because this is the last thing that we have always trusted travel agencies (and in vain, I must say, because they are fighting for this simple, in general, exorbitant price). Fortunately, both Bulgaria and Greece (the first Schengen country that we enter) have wonderful visa centers in Moscow. Amazingly convenient service, everything is fast, there are practically no queues, you just need to correctly prepare a package of documents, which, in general, if you follow the instructions on the websites of both centers, is not very difficult.

We had only one problem, we flew to Bulgaria in June (drawing up documents for real estate) and the travel agency opened visas for two months (instead of the required five days), why this moment was not agreed with us and who made such a decision (airline tickets we provided it back and forth) it is not clear, but at the time of applying to the visa center, the “old” visas were still valid and we were refused to issue new ones, despite the fact that we had already flown with them. I had to wait for the expiration date of old visas and go again (they say you can cancel a visa through an application at the embassy, ​ ​ but we didn’t try, we fit the dates normally). In both cases, the visas were ready within two working days (although the Bulgarian one goes as “urgent” and is more expensive, respectively, the Greeks have two days for the standard processing time of the application).

For residents of distant regions, this option is difficult, of course, in a certain sense, and even for Muscovites, and those who are close to our Stolny City, God himself ordered not to let intermediaries profit from themselves.


I paid for hotel rooms and ferry tickets via the Internet using a credit card. I note that if hotels usually do not withdraw money when booking (the maximum they can block on the card is money equal to the cost of one day), then ferry companies withdraw money immediately after issuing tickets, like airlines, so be careful when booking, changing departure dates, type of cabin or vehicle can be complicated if the design is incorrect. Ferry on the route Greece - Italy of the company MINOAN LINES (www. ferries. gr). It sails from Igoumenitsa and goes to Ancona (travel time is about 14 hours). There are a lot of ferries, the choice is huge, so everyone can choose the most convenient option for themselves.

Ferry from Germany to Finland by FINNLINES (www. finnlines. com). We traveled on it last year on the same route, it seemed to us the most convenient. Let's see what will happen in this. Leaves Travemü nde, arrives in Helsinki, travels for almost a day and a half. SUPERFAST is faster, but we didn't enjoy sailing it last year. For reference www. superfast. com (by the way, they also sail from Greece to Italy, so it may seem more convenient for someone to book tickets in one company).

All electronic devices showed that the distance from Lipetsk to Burgas was a little more than two thousand kilometers. We didn't have to go through Russia for long, taking the direction to Kursk to the Krupets border crossing, which passes into the city of Glukhov on the territory of Ukraine. Odessa turned out to be the middle of the way (I am very sorry that there was no time to see this wonderful city at least with one eye).

So, a thousand kilometers a day, if we want to get to Burgas with one overnight stay. Experienced drivers will say nonsense and will be right in some ways, but not in some ways, it is necessary to take an amendment for ignorance of the road as such, as well as force majeure circumstances, of which we have in our homeland, that our Slavic neighbors have an abundance of each day. In the same direction, you can get to Ukraine through the Khomutovka checkpoint, located on the Kyiv-Moscow highway. But experienced travelers to Ukraine dissuaded us from this route, a lot of people usually gather there. I can’t confirm, I haven’t seen it, but respected people can be trusted. I won’t describe the road to the border, it’s not interesting, and everyone has their own, depending on who is traveling from where, I don’t impose anything on anyone, I just tell my feelings and impressions of everything that happened to us.

Border ...this is a terrible word for any Soviet person.


Yes, and sometimes for the post-Soviet too, we, who have lived for decades under a mass of all kinds of prohibitions, still experience fear when approaching it. Admit it, because approaching the window of the border guard at the airport and holding out your passport, you are always nervous. It is so? We are afraid, what if they don’t let them in, and what if they don’t like something, and the faces of the border guards sitting in the “booths” do not bode well (I can’t understand where they find them). But this is all the lyrics, and if in essence, then approaching the border control, as always, I was a little nervous, different thoughts come into my head, did I pay the last fine in the traffic police, which came from the bailiff service, whether the border guards would become attached to the blocks of cigarettes that we we carry in a suitcase (my parents smoke, alas), what if, what if ...and so on. The usual thoughts of the "scoop" so to speak, although he has already crossed this border a thousand times and not the first passport is already studded with visas.

The Russian border guards made an excellent impression. I won’t say that it’s the first time in my life, but still you don’t often meet so, I’m not afraid of this word, cultured and helpful workers, both border services and customs officers. The only thing in which we still do not reach the European Union is that the cars are still looked at (it must be said very formally) and the customs declaration for the temporary export of the car is still forced to be written. The paper is frankly meaningless. Ideally, I handed my passport through the window without getting out of the car, they gave you a “stamp” and go on with God. Is it difficult? Did you catch many violators among private individuals, gentlemen, customs officers? After all, let's be frank, those who have something to smuggle, they have long found options and calmly carry themselves. So does it make sense to wag their own citizens. But, I must say, the speed of our customs clearance was still very fast.

They even wished us a happy journey and smiled. I really hope that we are still moving in the right direction. But very slowly for some reason. But the Ukrainian customs officers and border guards. Yes. I can’t write without emotions, excuse me, but I think those who have traveled to Ukraine at least once will understand me. To elevate corruption at the border to the rank of almost a state affair is, excuse me, well, no way. "Banana Republic" gives back what we saw at the Ukrainian customs post. So frankly, money has never been extorted from us, even our own traffic cops, whom they blame for what the world is worth, are angels compared to Ukrainian customs officers. In the very first “booth” on the territory of Ukraine, there were a couple of cheerful border guards who thrust three pieces of paper in Ukrainian into me with the words: “It can help, otherwise you will be stuck here for a long time. ”

I understood the hint right away, I didn’t want to waste time explaining that “not a camel”, so with an open heart I donated five hundred rubles as material assistance to the fraternal Ukrainian people. The speed with which the guys filled out their papers was just phenomenal, they immediately put them somewhere in the bedside table and gave me a green paper. I’m ready to argue, at the end of the shift everything is simply thrown out of the bedside table, well, I don’t believe that someone needs it or goes to the archive, we didn’t even sign there. Further, the border guards went more cheerfully, the guys said on the radio that the issue was “resolved” with us, they apparently did not get through to the customs officers. Then it began: “Drive the car here”, “You are in Ukraine for the first time”, “And then you need to draw up a declaration”, “And then we will inspect the car”, and so on.


All this would have lasted indefinitely, but then some big boss came up and very loudly told his subordinates that they were wrong. After that, we were released within one minute, although the sad sad customs officer still tried to inspect the car and find fault with the pack of Paracetamol lying in the armrest. Horror. Shame on the Ukrainian government. I just can't find any other words. What is NATO, what is the European Union, what are you talking about, dear Messrs. Yushchenko and Tymoshenko. You first need to restore order within your rather big republic, at least minimally, remove all this scum from their posts, remove the traffic police, who are begging ten times worse than ours. It is sad, very sad to observe how a line of misunderstanding, hatred and mutual reproaches lay between those who until recently were one Power. This is the tragedy of our time otherwise I can not say.

But there are, there are still customs officers in the world who are worse than Ukrainians, albeit not in the sense of bribes ...it would be better if they took them. More on this a little further.

In essence, I can say that something unexpected for us was that at the entrance we must indicate the border crossing through which we will leave Ukraine. The meaning of this, again, eluded us, but it had to be so, and since I didn’t know any transitions, I indicated the nearest Reni on the map, and in the end we ended up in Vinogradnoye, where the brave border guards almost turned us around ago, but for 50 hryvnias they agreed to release it here, shaking their fingers. It seems to me that this is another semi-legal way of bribery, there are a lot of crossings, everything is nearby, try to hit the right one, and then go another 50-80 km. , when you are already at the cherished goal, it seems to be out of hand, so the gentlemen of the border guards take advantage of this.

Although, honestly, we had practically no complaints about the "letters", the customs officers did not even look at the car, even though they are great here. We even gave them a bottle of "Lipetsk" mineral water, the contrast is too strong, although they are also beggars, but at least respectful beggars.

Square met with good roads and a complete lack of currency exchange offices (we somehow famously slipped past the grandmothers after the border, maybe they change, but the exchange rate is most likely not entirely honest). But the roads really surprised. Absolutely empty highway Moscow - Kyiv upset only at the repair site, with a detour of forty kilometers. An excursion to this Ukrainian hinterland showed that there are no roads there and apparently never will be. In some places, the asphalt "worn out" to the ground and gravel substrate. But in general, a very good and fast road. For 150 km.


before Kyiv, we stopped to have a bite to eat in a simple roadside cafe, I didn’t even remember the names, there are thousands of us that we have there, the prices surprised me a lot, in Ukraine everything is more expensive than in Russia, and much more expensive. The food, by the way, turned out to be not bad, but it didn’t strike the imagination, thanks at least we didn’t suffer with our stomachs. I don’t presume to call it tasty, although I wanted to try real Ukrainian cuisine, it’s a pity we didn’t know where it could be done, and there was little time. After Kyiv, in a southerly direction to Odessa, there is a stunning wide autobahn with perfect coverage. Looking at the rickety houses in the villages and the almost complete lack of infrastructure along the highway, we perceived the road as something from a science fiction movie, or at least from another dimension.

to Odessa, which backfired on us the next day, because of which we got to Burgas late at night, but more on that later, again I rush things. Closer to Odessa, life appears along the road, which, a hundred kilometers after Kyiv, seems to have ended. We stopped for the night in a small motel along the highway, leaving the car right near the entrance. Neither the motel nor the complex itself deserves any laudatory or negative statements, ordinary, moderately clean, very expensive (luxury 600 hryvnia), in general, a typical representative of its class, where you can stay only in great need and the only desire to leave the next morning as soon as possible.

This morning, thank God, came and we moved further south, by the way, I want to say that we didn’t have a normal map of Ukraine for the navigator, so we bought a paper one at the gas station, which we never regretted, and given the periodic “glitches” of navigation everywhere, including Western Europe, later I bought maps of all the countries where we had to go. From my already considerable experience of using the navigator, I can say that it is indispensable in large cities, and in general, in any city it is indispensable, find the way to the hotel or take the right direction to the next city. But on the highways, navigation often fails, gets confused in the forks and can send you not at all where you want. So my advice is to combine navigation and good old paper maps, it will be much more reliable than wandering around unfamiliar countries without really understanding where you are moving at all.

We drove through Odessa quickly, very positive emotions were delivered by a traffic police officer who stopped me for my wrong behavior when driving around the ring. He smiled, introduced himself, asked where we were going, explained what I was wrong about, asked if I had been drinking, to a negative answer he said, “That’s your second day on vacation, it’s time to start, ” gave the documents and wished a happy journey. Thank you. There are still people on this earth. (His colleague, having caught me on the radar fifty kilometers from the border, began to beg for four hundred hryvnias, but in the end he was satisfied with five hundred rubles. I think he was satisfied with three hundred, but again, time was very expensive).


After Odessa, the road deteriorates noticeably, but in general it remains not very busy. It remains from 50 to 110 km to the border. depending on the transition you have chosen. In Ukraine, I also recommend refueling, since gasoline is certainly cheaper than in Europe, although it is somewhat more expensive than ours.

The fuel quality is generally satisfactory, but in order not to take risks, we chose more impressive complexes, preferably well-known fuel brands. I really did not want to kill the car with bad diesel fuel at the very beginning of the trip.

The Ukrainian-Moldovan border, as I wrote above, passed quite quickly and culturally from the side of Nezalezhnaya, except for the small incident already described with the mismatch between the crossing indicated in the passport and the one we got to. The Moldavian checkpoint met with complete silence and two bored border guards. A gloomy boy came out of the checkpoint, took the passports and went to the computer. He looked at the passports for about fifteen minutes, frankly wasted time and looked at me in every possible way, but to pay money at the entrance to the country through which we travel 50 km at most. we considered it unnecessary, in the end I was released to the customs officers, who, having scowled at the car from the outside, also sat down, writing something for a long time and actively.

There was quite a decent queue at the Giurgiulesti crossing (I might make a mistake in the transcription). It was caused, as it turned out later, by the surprisingly slow and incredibly stupid work of the Moldovan border guards. We had to wait at least half an hour, after which we were allowed to go to the checkpoint, where a local village boy in a big green cap was checking the body numbers of cars. All without exception, comparing it with what is indicated in the data sheet. To the question "Why? ”Received the answer“ It’s supposed to be so ”and we began to search with him, since I didn’t know the location of the body number. I think this idea soon got tired of him himself, but we finally got to the trunk, where we found some kind of sign that satisfied the representative of the authorities of the Republic of Moldova.


I think the guy is just wondering where the body number is located on which foreign car, or it’s curious to look under the hoods, I don’t know, but we haven’t seen such a madhouse anywhere else, all the more it’s not clear to him what difference it makes, because we leave the country in the same car that we entered. Logic is impossible to find. Not to mention the fact that he processed us very slowly, during this time a line gathered at the customs officers checking the availability of payment for the environment, where we had to stand for another ten minutes. As a result, in order to leave Moldova, in which it was not located in such a territorially inconvenient way for us Russians, I would never go. Romanians, compared to everyone else, are true Europeans. We did not see customs at all, the border guards took the passports, returned them in one minute and wished us a happy journey.

In general, if you decide to go this route, then I advise you to be patient.

The total loss of time could be at least four hours, possibly more with less luck.

Further narration will be conducted by country.

Romania: Despite recent accession to the European Union and the obvious pride associated with this event (European Union flags are flying at every turn), Romania is still far from what we are used to understanding as Europe. I will note right away that in the villages it is a big problem to find an English-speaking person. In general, the country is not very conducive to learning, the language is incomprehensible, road signs in English are not duplicated, the roads are narrow and generally even worse than in the center of Russia. If you refuel on the territory of Ukraine and stock up on sandwiches and water there, then you can fly through Romania without stopping. It seemed to us the most correct, but it is necessary to change a couple of euros for local "lei", since on the way you have to pay 8 lei for crossing the bridge over the Danube.

It is theoretically possible to change money at any branch of the bank, but we spent about forty minutes on this, since the local teller could not enter the name from the passport into the computer for a long time. To be honest, we were not able to fully find out the reason for such a long delay, since no one in the bank spoke any language other than the local one. The car also caused a real stir among the local "natives", local beggars and homeless-looking people immediately began to gather for us. In general, there was actually little pleasant, at the first opportunity we retreated from the street. An attempt to buy water in a small shop closer to the border with Bulgaria also failed. The store turned out to be an analogue of the average Russian general store with a very limited assortment and a queue of a dozen local residents.


So I would not recommend staying in Romania for a long time, although, of course, closer to Bucharest, the situation is likely to improve. I also do not recommend driving around Romania at night, you may not notice a large hole right in the middle of the road or, God forbid, a horse-drawn cart of local peasants, on which there are no identification marks in principle. In the application, I will try to attach a route map for Romania, or if it doesn’t work out, I will describe it by settlements, since it is easy to get lost in this country, and I personally could not find a normal map for the navigator. If your return route will also run through Romania, then it is advisable to purchase a local environmental card (Vignette) at any gas station, they may not ask for it at the entrance, but they will definitely ask on the way back, the customs officers set a fine for its absence just crazy - 50 euros . But you can agree on twenty.

So it's easier to buy a weekly vignette for ten lei and avoid problems.

The border crossing to Bulgaria is located near the city of Constanta, it is quite a long way to travel in Romania, about 300 kilometers. The road surface normalizes only closer to the coast, but the canvas is still very narrow, it is inconvenient to overtake. Since we tried to drive through Romania as quickly as possible, I can’t tell you any sights of this country, tourism is still poorly developed, the coast is occupied mainly by the local population, there are a very large number of people renting premises along the road. In general, the coast makes a more pleasant impression, but it is still far from Europe.

Bulgaria: Durankulak border crossing. Bulgarians and Romanians migrate back and forth just checking their identity, how good it is to be one state after all.

They didn’t detain us either, they stamped our passports and let us into the country. We didn't even get out of the car. By the way, we were asked for car insurance, the so-called Green Card, at all borders, from Ukrainian to Bulgarian. After Bulgarian, they never asked her, although, it must be admitted, we no longer had borders in the usual sense. There are about 70 kilometers of mountain passes between Varna and Burgas, the roads there are good, but rather steep, the Bulgarians drive harshly and sometimes very risky, which is proved by a fairly large number of accidents, be careful.

What to see in Bulgaria if you are vacationing in Sunny Beach or its surroundings? Well, of course, the Old Town of Nessebar in the first place. It is especially interesting to walk there in the evening, when the old truly Bulgarian houses are illuminated from all sides.


There are a lot of tourists, mostly residents of the UK, who settled on the Black Sea coast due to low prices and completely European living conditions and service. There are a lot of wonderful little restaurants in the Old City, offering mainly fresh local fish prepared in various ways, as well as some seafood delicacies. Of the restaurants we visited, I can mention the restaurants Romantika and Neptun, they are located at different ends of the city and have open terraces with excellent views of the bay (Romantika) or Sunny Beach (Neptun). There is also a good restaurant called Gloria Mar, located just below Romantica, you can’t find a table there in the evenings, all the local beau monde on expensive cars books the entire restaurant in advance, but it’s quite possible to have a delicious lunch there in the afternoon, prices are not much different from the average in the city.

Prices in all restaurants are moderate, the local currency is "lev", there are many exchangers, at the time of our visit the optimal purchase rate against the euro was 1.93 leva for 1 euro. Souvenirs in Nessebar are cheaper than in Sunny Beach and there is more choice, however, I should note that it is more profitable to buy rose cosmetics and pink soap popular with tourists in pharmacies or large stores in Burgas. At lotusniks in resorts, it sometimes costs twice as much.

Be sure to visit the Nessebar water park. It stands on the coastal highway Burgas - Varna and personally I was simply amazed. True, there are a lot of people during the season and sometimes it is difficult to find a free deck chair or a circle for skiing, but it's worth it. The park has forty different water attractions, including very high slides and a beautiful artificial river. The water park will be interesting for both adults and children, so it’s quite possible to spend a whole day visiting it, I’m sure you will want to return there again.

When you decide to take a break from the sea and go shopping, it is not at all necessary to drive along the serpentines back to Varna, visit the recently opened Burgas Plaza center in Burgas with a large number of shops of famous European brands. The prices are quite democratic, as for everything in Bulgaria.

From hotels I can recommend the Sol Nessebar Palace complex (4+ stars) or the five-star Sunset Resort located in Pomorie. Russians in Bulgaria are treated very well, the language is very understandable to your native ear, and even if you do not speak Bulgarian, and the seller in the store does not even know a word in Russian, you will always find a common language. The European Union began to build roads, from Sofia to Burgas the route is simply magnificent. The coast is developing by leaps and bounds and I think within five years all construction will be completed. The crisis would not have killed everything.


In the process of forming the route, a curious thing was discovered - almost throughout the entire Greek-Bulgarian border there is not a single automobile pass. And although looking at the map it seems that from Burgas to Greece is within easy reach, we actually had to go to the other end of the country. It's good that the country is still small. So leaving the house early in the morning on August 14, we set off along the highway Burgas - Sofia in the direction of Plovdiv to Thessaloniki. By the way, the navigator here stubbornly offers to go to Sofia and only from there go to the big highway in the direction of Greece. Such a path is possible, but in terms of time it is very long, although it excludes the path through mountain passes, of which there are plenty to the west of Plovdiv. We took a course to Pazardzhik, after it to Velingrad and safely passing the passes moved to the Greek border.

These areas of Bulgaria abound in ski resorts, unfortunately we have not yet had the opportunity to test them in terms of visitability, but at least they should be on par with the coastal resorts. Thanks to skiing, the tourist season in Bulgaria lasts virtually all year round, all souvenir shops in late September, early October move to ski resorts, where they live until April - May. In the mountains, locals sell honey, by the way, you can buy it almost everywhere in the country, but there is more choice in the highlands; on the coast, they mostly sell not very tasty pink.

Greece: The last border where we checked the documents and put a stamp on the entry into the Schengen zone. The whole procedure took ten minutes, no more. By the way, they also look at the documents of the Bulgarians, but of course they don’t need any visas and they don’t put stamps on them.

To Thessaloniki from the border about a hundred miles along the autobahn under construction, there are very few cars, it's nice to drive. The main thing when going around the city is not to get confused at large forks, they are very peculiar among the Greeks, if you need to go right along the highway, take the left side at the fork. Thus, I almost drove into Thessaloniki themselves, there is nothing to do there when moving in transit and having ferry tickets for the current date. Still, it's better to buy a card too. The navigator does not always correctly determine the route. After the highways are divided into the one that goes south to Athens and the western one, going to Igoumenitsa and Italy, respectively, the highway turns into a magnificent multi-lane autobahn with an incredible number of tunnels. Keep in mind, roads in Greece are toll, although this fee is very modest compared to Western Europe, but you need to have pocket euros for travel.


Apparently, these people have a regime of austerity in their blood, since they are fully equipped for such voyages. Sleeping bags, air mattresses, pumps to pump these mattresses, even small double tents were pitched on almost all open decks. On Scandinavian ferries, especially on short domestic flights, we met people sleeping in the corridor, but there has never been such a mass character there. Perhaps the time for swimming was chosen unsuccessfully, in the future I will definitely deal with this. The MINOAN LINES ferry Europa Palace itself is quite standard, except that it is noticeably larger than those on which we sailed earlier. There are quite a few types of cabins on any ferry, so everyone chooses the most convenient option for themselves, we prefer that there must be a window, because it is not difficult to get claustrophobia in inside deck cabins.

Italy: For the first time in our lives, we were forced to leave the ferry almost backwards, jumping on steel anti-skid cables. The English family, parked on the car deck next to our car, expressed their attitude to the Italian-Greek ferry with one word “CRAZY” and we could not disagree with them. Not only was the ferry filled with an order of magnitude more cars than it should take (even at the entrance we were forced to park not according to the markings, but as close as possible to another car, and how to get out of the car later, nimble, poorly speaking any languages, the sailors were not interested in general, they had to “stuff” as many cars as possible so that everyone who was sold tickets could fit in. At the exit, the attendants generally let everything take its course and as a result, everyone went where they wanted, despite the fact that there were at least a thousand others around him outgoing cars.

With difficulty getting out into the streets of Ancona, we entered the address of the hotel in Milan into the navigator and set off. The principle of movement on toll Italian highways was studied by us in the winter, when we visited this country for the new year. The meaning is simple - when leaving the highway, the turnstile gives you a ticket for travel, you save it, and when you leave the highway in any settlement, there is a payment terminal in which the employee inserts your ticket and depending on

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