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Small roundtrip around Europe

 It was an old plan, that we  wanted to travel around Europe by car.  We made it happen this spring exactly at Easter. The destination was from Budapest to Switzerland, Mont Blanc, Monaco and Italy. 

 We left from Budapest on Thursday. We slept at a little familiar motel called Gasthaus Transilvania in Austria. We continued from here the next morning and we traveled all day and we arrived to Switzerland, Bulle in the evening. 

 On Saturday We visited the HR Giger Museum. Hans Rudolf Giger is the Swiss painter, artist and sculptor who won the Oscar award for his design of the creatures in the Alien film. So I recommend this museum who likes those films and mad arts.







We went from Bulle to Montreux and we visited the Queen Studio Experience. You can see this for free. It wasn’t easy to find, because it was in the casino.




From Montreux, We went to Chamonix by car and took about 1 hour. We visited the Mont Blanc which is the Alps’, West-Europe’s and the European Union’s highest mountain. It is on border of France and Italy. It’s height is about 4808.7 meters but is changing a few centimeters year after year because of the snowing, weather and the movement of icecaps. It’s best to take a coat with you, because the top is very cold. You can go to the top by lift taking about 30 minutes. When you go there, don’t forget to check the opening hours!





From here we traveled to Torino and we slept there. The next morning we went to Monaco and we did some sightseeing. Monaco's official name is Principality of Monaco the Word’s second smallest country. Very beautiful, but everything is very expensive and it was very hard find hotel especially with car. It is not easy to get around by car, the streets are narrow and tortuous, parking is mainly underground.








We started back to Budapest by making a stop in Milano to see the Dome. We wanted to see the Last Supper, but we couldn't buy a ticket on the spot, you have to book in advance so we couldn’t see it. After Milano we spent a night in Verona, we had dinner, and the next day we left Verona towards Budapest.  


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