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On Sunday April 26th 2009 in the afternoon we started our travel across the Balkans in our very own twenty years old Ford Escort Cabriolet. Our goal was to arrive in southern Bavaria before midnight and leaving Munich behind us. There we tried to get some sleep in our car till the dawn, so that, while driving across the Tauern motorway we would be able to enjoy the views of the Alps, that would hopefully still be covered with snow. We were lucky. Before sunrise we could already see the white peaks of mountains of upper Bavaria of whcih took some photos of course. They even got higher as we crossed the Austrian border, passed Salzburg and continued our journey towards Villach across the Tauern motorway. For driving on Austrian motorways you need a toll sticker that will cost you €7.70 for 10 days, so we had to buy two. Additionally you need to pay €14.00 for the Tauern Autobahn, which includes both Tauern and Katschberg tunnel, that measure respectively 6401m and 5898m. Amounts mentioned on this page are dated April 2009. About 10.00 am we passed the city of Villach in Carinthia. The Karavanke motorway that we driving on after passing by then, connects the motorway networks of Austria and Slovenia. The motorway leads you through the Karavanke tunnel, for which the toll is €7.00. The city we had to set for was Ljubljana. In Slovenia we needed to buy another toll sticker for the motorways of the new member of the European Union. The unreasonable thing however is, that the fee is no less than €36.- for half a year, even if were only going to be shortly on Slovenia's motorways for only two days. After having crossed the border to Croatia it was only going to take us about an hour to reach our first destination Zagreb. First of all we took care of our overnight stay and concluded, that people in Zagreb do not offer rooms the way we were used to in the Adriatic area, so after an hour of searching we gave up and booked a room in the Vienna hotel for €84,- including breakfast. We sat down on the terrace in front of the hotel and said "cheers", both holding a large cold Ožujsko beer. Wow! That was long ago. Later that day we send Pamela a message that we had finished our meal. Pamela was member of the animation team and mini club in our hotel in Tučepi in Dalmatia. She and our Jennifer were close friends. We chose a terrace on Britanski Trg (square). She came with an acquaintance, who had met a Dutch friend not so long ago and she was thing about moving to the Netherlands. The result were multilingual conversations, which were as much amusing as educational.
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