Sunday, April 18, 2010

Traveling 1700 km in 17 hours by car (Antwerpen-Stockholm)


Ferry in Denmark, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Fence, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Denmark, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Windmills, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Our solution for the return to Finland depended on getting a hire car which you can leave in Stockholm, and driving fast enough so that we could catch the boat from Stockholm to Helsinki. We needed to be in Stockholm on Saturday at 5 pm.

There were many similarly affected on the road, for example a group who had hired a taxi from Budapest to Göteborg. Many had to pay thousands of euros for their travel. I have luckily a great boss - the CEO of our company - who came to fetch us in a car. (Maybe I should explain that of bit but maybe not.)

In any case, here are some images from the road, which started to blurry after driving through the night and the next day, 1700 km in all, in 17 hours, at the average speed of 100 km/h. Not much time for stopping except to get fuel for the car and passengers.

At times you felt extremely tired, but still it was hard to catch sleep in the car, at least I didn't. In the end it felt like fighting the windmills and winning.

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