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Amsterdam to Garching bei München

So I've been back from my road trip to Albania for two weeks already. It's probably about time I wrote something about that, isn't it? So here goes.

I left for Garching, near München, on Friday, the 22^nd of July. Apart from quite a bit of baustellen on the Deutsche Autobahn, it was a relatively uneventful day of driving.

I had a reservation at the Etap hotel in Garching, which is just a notch above the really bare-bones Formula 1 hotels. In these Etap hotels you actually get a toilet and shower in the room.

After the first day of driving my odometer should have said something like 815 km, but I only remembered to set it to zero somewhere past Utrecht, so it was a bit less than that.

Which also means that the total distance driven during this two week road trip is a bit more than the 5500 km the odometer registered (nearly to the kilometer, by the way, I think it was 5498 or something close to that).

This is the first in a series of posts about my road trip, and there's a lot more to come. Including, but not limited to: lots of rain, great driving along mountain roads, a chance encounter on the Croatian highway, a collision on a Croatian road, understeer on Korčula, beautiful Croatian coastal roads, waterfalls and lakes near Plitvička, thunderstorms with hail, dirt roads flanked by landmines, and a great TraSHHH weekend in Tirana.