So I’ve got plenty of time to spend in Romania when I get there – what I’ve not got is a lot of time to get to the Romania border in the first place.

The new rules means that you can only have 90 days in every 180 days in Schengen countries – luckily Romania and Bulgaria don’t fall into this category.

So for the sums –

I’d already used a week when I went skiing in Italy earlier this year and this leaves me with 83 days.

I’ve divided this in 2 – so 41.5 days to get from Hook of Holland to the border of Romania – spend as much time as I want in Romania and Bulgaria – and then the remaining 41.5 days to get from the Romanian border to Dover or Calais for ferry back to UK.

To be on the safe side I’m not going to cut as fine as that but at the moment think I’ve only got 12 days to get to the Romania border so I need to get my pedals turning!!