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Wednesday, 1st September, 2004

Notes from 1st Sep 2004
[posted at 10:00 GMT]    

Today is a national holiday in Slovak Republic. I went to visit friend in city near by. I could choose for highway or local secondary roads. I went for second one as it was a beautiful weather and I took my camera. I knew this route across mountain so I was expecting to gets some nice pictures on those hardly 60km. Yes I took me almost two and half hours, four rolls and one speed ticket :-)

It was so funny with that speed ticket, as I was stopping almost every 5 kilometers. I was driving down the mountains and catch-up with some local people. as they saw my coming from back they start speeding up, even I wasn't any pushing and wasn't indicating in any way that I want to overtake them. So we reach first village I slowed down to 60km/hour which is max speed in town here and than I saw further limit to 40km/hour because of possible truck entering the road. I though well today nobody is working so it will be not so hot so I just slow down to about 50km/hour. The car in front of me doesn't slow down at all, just entered the village.
As I was passing huge hill of small stones I noticed white car standing there in little strange position. "They check speed here", flashed through my mind. At that was it. After next 1km I was stopped after the local car by police. I was driving 48km/hour, poor guy in front of me 78km/hour.