Saturday 25th October 2014 - Bed about 1.30am, wake at 5.30am, up at 7am, away at 11am.
From here on now is like cycling into the unknown. Not sure of route, signs seem to be sparse, conditions of path varies and my maps I've downloaded don't really have much information on them (shops, hostels, hotels, bakeries, landmarks etc) like in the previous countries.
Plus, I've been to most countries or cities I've passed through, the next few I haven't and I have no knowledge of the language either. Different money too, proper border crossings and need a visa for Turkey.
Fun times ahead.
Not too bad cycling out of the city. Along the waterfront to the end of the cycle path, then along beside a road on a well marked cycle lane.
It sometimes then ends, cycle on the road, then it begins again.
McDonalds stop in town of highrise tower blocks. I'm now on the large island in the middle of the Danube. Banked up sides enclosing a vast area of flat farmland.
No signs, so just stayed on roads. Really straight roads.
Crossed the bridge in a nice town called Ráckeve.
Then down along bank of the river for a while, on a horrendous bumpy pot holed road. The whole way along this there are lots and lots of fishing platforms on the edge.
The horrendous road then turns into a muddy dirt track. I am now being held up by a car tentatively making its way down it.
Pass a house with 3 Labrador dogs pulling the feathers out of a freshly caught hen. When I stop to look, the dogs look up at me, the hen makes a run for it (I thought it was already dead), then the dogs chase after it, resulting in mad squawking from the bushes. Poor hen.
Saw a Eurovelo sign on a bank....with a gravel path. N. O.
Went on the road. Just kept turning the pedals round and round and round.
5.30pm, sun setting. Looking at map and I happened to be stopped beside a motel on the opposite side of road.
Not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, so to speak, I went over to it.
Walked in and there's a big family dinner party going on. No one else in the restaurant.
5500 HUF, about £14, for a room in Szalki Fogadó Motel, just outside Szalkszentmárton. Basic, but warm with hot water and a very comfy bed.
Snickers and some mini chocolate biscuits for tea.
Day 57 - 25.10.14
Budapest to Szalkszentmárton, Hungary
11am to 5.30pm
4h 12min cycling
76.8km
1935 calories
490 metres asc
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