Driving Up Central Europe

April 1, 2010

Around 6 AM on March 14, I hopped in the car with Mike and Olga and we started the drive from sunny Montenegro to cold, snowy Tallinn, Estonia.

In case you are not familiar with central Europe, take out a map.

Find Podgorica, Montenegro. Find Tallinn, Estonia. Yep, we drove that.

Rather, Mike drove, Olga navigated, and I mostly slept in the back seat and woke up occasionally to take some pictures.

Here a a few:

We stopped for a couple of days and spent some time with missionaries Jerry and Jan in Budapest, Hungary. Here we are sitting with Jerry and Jan and Juli, who works at the ministry center there, eating Chinese food (of all things!). Driving Up Central Europe

And this is one view of Budapest, split in half by the Danube.

After that, we left again at 6 AM and drove straight north. Central Slovakia looked something like the Sound of Music, except the buildings were too colorful.

We stopped in Poland at Auschwitz, and I think that is enough said.

After staying at a hotel in Poland, we finally finished the last leg of the drive and made it to Tallinn. The Bay of Finland was basically cold water covered with ice chunks.

We had our Stoneworks Retreat in a lovely house with a sauna! Here are the attendees, representing Russia, Belarus, and Montenegro. (We are very serious.)