We were suffering a bit from "monument" shock and also getting tired of being woken up at 3:30 daily by the call to prayer and this together with us receiving news of a death in the family made us change our plans and decide to give Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia Slovenia and Austria a miss and head for Munich - a cheap flight airport making getting back for the funeral easy.
Scenery wise and from the motorway they looked stunning, especially after months of sand and flat roofed ramshackle houses with litter strewn all around to be confronted by lush fields, mechanized agriculture, mutlicoloured houses with red tiled roofs surrounded by trees was like entering the promised land. Its a good job Moses never made it to Europe else he would have asked for his money back!
The progress in Bulgaria and Serbia was clear and the countries looked much changed from our last visit and Croatia looked more like Germany than what we remembered. Turkey too looked modern, well organized clean and very very western. You would have been hard pressed to tell you weren't back in the EU at times.
We really look forward to returning to all these countries in the future and certainly from the little we saw Croatia and Turkey are ready to join the EU.
So here we are - 6 days after leaving Syria back in Munich And heading to a therme for Linda's birthday instead of the Hagia Sophia, but in many ways We are pleased to be back in civilization and are looking forward to recharging our batteries and setting off again in September.
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