Driving back
In the morning we departed at approximately 10:00. We first drove through Budva to see if we could get some foord for the Benz: vegetable oil for our route back. We also had to find some food for ourselves too ![]()
We found a supermarket and I saw they had vegetable oil too. I walked towards an employee and asked if they had 150 bottles for me? After that awkward look, they told me they had this in stock and they started collecting them from the stockroom. I paid at the cashier and outside they were already waiting with 15 boxes of bottles. I started putting them in the car and drove to a parking lot where I started to fill her up. Melissa checked out the neighbourhood to see if the coast was clear, cause we had no idea what the police had to say about this. An inhabitant from the flat who passed by stopped and stared at what I was throwing in that old yellow Mercedes from the Netherlands.
We started talking. He is perplex about the fact that I am just filling her up with straight vegetable oil. He wanted to know everything about it, and this was easy as he was a good german speaker because he had worked in Germany for a couple of years.
After filling up we started our journey back. We drove along the coastline of Croatia, after the first half we decided to take the tolroute for the second part. We drove through Croatia today and 150km south of Zagreb (Slovenia) we stopped to have a break.
I calculated what we had driven today but that was not much, only 550km. Because of the coastal route, which is in fact very slow. I filled the Benz up again and a bit later we entered Slovenia. Melissa was tired and went to bed (read: pushing the seat backwards). I kept on driving and driving and it all went very well, after another 400kms we were in Stuttgart. It was already 7:15u, I had driven the whole night. I drove another hour and decided to get some sleep, I had done 23 hours of driving today.
We were around Karlsruhe, and drove 1400km today, despite three border crossings and the all the back roads we had and the coastal route in Croatia, not bad at all.