If you’ve read the info from the previous days, you will know that I’m no fan of the D1 motorway that goes across the Czech Republic – it’s a mess. My original route took me from Auschwitz back to Brno (on the D1!) and then down to Austria. Avoiding this meant adding Slovakia to my list of countries, I guess their roads could not be any worse.

Bingo! Lovely motorways, nice and smooth and with very little traffic on them. It’s 10 Euros for the Vignette to stick on the window (toll sticker) and I now have a grand collection of five plus my tax disc

The heat got to me a bit today, everything in the cab was getting to hot to touch from a combination of the bright sun and the heat coming up from the little engine (you sit on the engine you see, or more correctly, the passenger does).

I had the phone on the dashboard doing the SootyTrak GPS stuff and covered it up to keep the sun off it. Somehow the cover fell off without me noticing and the heat made the phone go nuts, it eventually died which ruined the day.

Anyway… got to the site which is near to the Danube and a few km from the centre of Vienna. The thermometer in the back of the van was showing 41.6C at one point. No wonder things are breaking. The fridge is showing 22C, hardly ice cold beer, looks like I’ll have to hit the site bar later.

I’ll take a trip to Vienna tomorrow, today has been setting up, washing and trying to fix the phone. I found out it’s the battery which had cooked in the heat, lucky I brought a spare with me and the phone is now working again – result 🙂

Tomorrow I’ll take a trip into Vienna and see what’s what. Watch this space…