Mini United Challenge 2013

We left Amsterdam in rain and pointed the convoy to Prague, Vienna, Budapest and on to the Balkans, where long days, small borders and changing roads set the tone. Romania brought mountain bends and the Bicaz Gorge; Moldova and Ukraine added patient border hours and rough surfaces; then the Black Sea coast carried us into Türkiye for a club welcome and a late-night arrival in Istanbul, with a quiet rest day before turning back toward Greece and the Adriatic.

Light competition kept focus without turning it into a race: finding hidden stickers, photo tasks in city squares, regularity tests, and quiz posts from olive groves to alpine passes. Some navigation choices led to farm tracks, sand traps or the long way round, which only made the stories better. We finished via Slovenia, Venice, the Swiss-Italian border roads and the Vosges, returning to Amsterdam with about 8,000 km logged.