Day 4 - Christmas in Sofia

In the morning I met with my friend Ann and got from her 140 l of used vegetable oil. She gave me the best used oil. She has been collecting used oil in restaurants in Sofia and making a biodiesel. We loaded my wan and I was very happy to have more oil for my next journey to Turkey.
Diana invited us for christmas dinner at her place with her father and sister. It was very nice to spend the christmas with friends. We had 9 dishes (it is Bulgarian tradition to have odd number). The food was all vegetarian and it was very good. It was a very nice and relaxing christmas.

Day 3 - Beograd / Sofia

We got up after 7 to meet Agnieszkas friend Maria and I arranged meeting with Ceca. It was quite cold and snow. There was a lot of traffic and we got to the main train station around 10. Agnieszka went with Maria and went to meet Ceca. It was very nice to see her again. We have travelled together in June through Macedonia. We were making plans for our new project Prophets of the Alphabet and what we could do in Sofia. We left Sofia around 12 and continued our journey to Sofia. We took again the most expensive freeway in Europe - 200 km cost me 45 euro, but it was much faster than taking the small roads. The road to the Bulgarian boarders through the small tunnels was also good and we managed to pass the 10 km truck line before the boarders. Passing the boarder control one week before Bulgaria joins the EU was without any problems, but we still had to pay 5 Euro for car disinfection and 4 Euro for the one week toll road sticker. On the way to sofia I was caught by police. It was the same place as 2 years ago. There was a 50 km sigh than 60 km after some time I felt it is ok and I wend 70 and I was caught. The police man told us that we have to pay 70 leva (35 euro) at the boarder. I told him that we go all the way to Egypt and than I gave him 20 Euro. I also showed him a book from Bela Rechka with our photos and tried to explain that we come here often and that we like it here. Hi was impressed and let us go. We arrived to Sofia around 9 and met with our friend Diana. She invited us o stay at her place.

Day 2 - Budapest / Beograd

We got uppa around 9 and drove to Budapest. My new GPS easily found Katas place. It was very nice to see her and her 2 years old daughter. We saw her 2.5 years ago when we went to our festival in Bela Rechka. It was almost 6 when we left for to Beograd. It is the 3rd time this year this year when Im traveling to Bulgaria. The road to Beograd is quite good. We just had to wait about half and our in the Serbian borders. There were many people traveling home for the holidays. We made it almost to Beograd and spend our 2nd night on the OMW parking lot.

1st day - Leaving to Budapest

After some delays caused by leaking diesel fuel tank and arranging all things for the trip we finally left my parents place.
The tanks are filed with 250 l of used vegetable oil which should get us to Sofia where we will get 150 l from our friends.
On the way to Hungary we stopped in Prague to do a last check of the alarm a I managed to fix my kite thanks Peter. We finally left Prague around 8PM. Our plan was to stop in Budapest and visit Agnieszkas friend Kata. We stopped around 2 AM 20 km outside of Budapest and spend our 1st night at the gas station.

EGYPT 2007

The new Ecojourney on used vegetable oil to Egypt, through Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria, Jordan and back through Libya, Tunis and Italy. This long planned trip through the Middle East and north Africa on vegetable oil is coming to truth. I have visa to Syria, carnet for Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Libya and Tunis. The car has improved filtering system, that can filter used oil directly to the main tank. I can take 250 l of used oil and travel almost 2500 km. This should make it easier to make the whole journey only with vegetable oil. It will be fun to travel on vegetable oil through countries where diesel is cheaper than water.
From Prague to Egypt I will travel with my girlfriend Agnieszka. She will fly back to Poland at the end of January. If I can get the visa to Libya I will travel back through Libya and Tunis. If it is too expensive to pay the guides to cross Libya I will take back the same route through Jordan, Syria and Turkey. Im equipped with a satellite internet and Im planning to publish regular blog from the whole journey. Stay tuned for the stories and experience.