On the Road to Budapest...26th June

I left Bratislava just after 11, I thought I would wait until the traffic calmed down, and reached the Hungarian boarder within 40 minutes and stopped at the first service station for petrol. An odd observation while in the car park; cars from Norway, Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Estonia and Austria all collected (oh, and GB..). I hadn't seen any other nationalities while travelling from Poland.  

Sorry Hungary, the motorway surface is the worst on my journey to date.. even worse than the UK motorways.. At one point I had to stop to check that a front wheel hadn't been damaged driving over a tank trap.. 
People don't drive as fast as on the Polish motorways.. unless it is a Polish car, so one good thing. 

The number of trucks moving in convoy sometimes took 5 to ten minutes to overtake. I thought the percentage of cars to trucks on the road was 40:60; driving south into Hungary and beyond. A two lane motorway can't really cope with this level of truck traffic, hence the reason for the poor surface. When driving through the Baltic States, signs extolled the virtue of joint funding of their roads. I wonder if Hungary has the same access to funds to repair their motorways?

Closing in on Budapest, the road expands to 6 lanes and the anticipation grows accordingly....