100. Getting stuck on a mountain
We did, we didn’t see the sign about the non-maintained road and really 5 minutes down the mountain it was fine! But 5 min up and in our new company leased car we were suddenly stuck on black ice and slowly sliding down the hill. The only thing that saved us was the rail along the steep mountain. The front of the car was almost touching the steel rail and with the scary $1000 Euro deductible we couldn’t afford to damage the car! The back of the car was against the jagged rocks on the mountain and it was almost perpendicular. Somehow the car had managed to roll down this way. We stuffed his scarf between the rail while the car kept rolling. Of course on that freezing night, I was dressed without a jacket and wearing slippery shoes so moving about the car was cold and quite slippery. And he had to hike up the mountain to the castle to look for help. The castle was closed so he hiked down the mountain and returned with a bucket of sand and a shovel and nice German guy (Wow a first in my blog!) Then with me in the car while 2 men were trying to put sand underneath the tires we ever so carefully inch by inch was able to straighten out the car and drive it down the hill, it was 2 hours of freezing and a lot of fun.