If you arrive in Germany, fairly just a few issues change: the colour of the police vehicles, the variety of lanes on the freeway, and, by the way in which, the automotive’s consumption additionally jumps a bit.
Alternatively, you’ll hear no much less Hungarian than on the final fuel station earlier than Hegyeshalom. We’re after Nuremberg, seven vehicles with Hungarian license plates are filling up on the identical time by a freeway, and two or three extra are parked subsequent to the store.
The others ran in, they’ve a bottle of peaches, and so they have already opened the beer. Due to them, you must cease roughly each 150 kilometers
– complains the driving force of the automotive subsequent to me.
As quickly as one automotive with a Hungarian license plate rolls out, the following one arrives instead, virtually solely Hungarians line up even when paying.
The Hungarian followers additionally undergo powerful qualifiers, it isn’t simple for everybody to get tickets and lodging
This place is acquainted, it isn’t the primary time I am refueling right here – displays the youthful man standing in entrance of me – I have been to the Handball Last 4 in Cologne earlier than, I am certain we got here right here then too. The individuals behind me are first-timers: – We thought that as quickly as we cross the border, everybody right here shall be racing frantically, however the scenario just isn’t that unhealthy – he factors out that in some components of the observe you’ll be able to drive with out velocity limits.
I am simply taking a photograph of one of many bands when a truck pulls up behind them. He blows the horn just a few occasions, and I soar up in annoyance to shut the automotive door, however when he pulls previous us, the driving force shouts with an enormous smile: GO HUNGARIANS!
All the individuals I spoke to have entrance charges and lodging. Many individuals booked the latter not within the metropolis, however within the surrounding settlements due to the extra favorable costs. Prepare transport is nice – they are saying, and there are even individuals who shall be taken to the stadium by their mates. The passengers of one of many campers inform us that they bought a second-hand ticket, way more costly than the unique worth. They paid roughly HUF 180,000 per particular person for the initially 200-euro tickets. – It was costly, however we do not thoughts. And possibly that was our luck, if the vendor had provided it cheaper, it will have been snapped up quicker.
Many of the vacationers left between 3 and 5 a.m., a few of them began the journey in two, others crammed right into a smaller automotive with 5. Most individuals cease by for a espresso, a cigarette, stretch a bit, after which proceed their journey. Heading to Cologne, it is time to cowl the remaining 400 kilometers. Now the Hungarian license plates are operating out, however you’ll be able to nonetheless hear Hungarian phrases popping out of the automotive that’s simply rolling in.
