travel blog
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Danube bike trail day 21 Moldova to Mehedinti The Danube Gorge
If you are thinking of cycling The Danube then just do this section!! Basically today can be summed up in one word WOW, stunning scenery, great empty roads & morning coffee for 60p. I’m so pleased at choosing to cycle on the Romanian left bank rather than the Serbian right bank which looked awful with…
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Kovin to Moldova on The Danube Bike Trail
An excellent 74 mile bike ride all though a bit frustrating when you see the huge kink in it just to cross the Serbian/Romanian border at Kaluderovo & then to pedal back to The Danube. Very pleased to stay on the left bank, as Romania is excellent, great smooth roads, smiling waving people (makes you…
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Danube cycle ride Day 19 – Belgrade to Kovin
Back on the road again after my two week break exploring 5 star luxury in Hungary with Sally who has written a great deal about it here. The Residence Wellness Hotels we stayed in were both very comfortable with good facilities and fast WiFi . My only gripe is that both hotel pool areas had…
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Getting there but where?
Here is my ride to date as compiled by the Garmin Etrex 20 & The Adze application: I left home 55 days ago and have bike for 40 days. As you can see it wasn’t a very direct route to the start of The Danube Bike Trail which I’m now 65% completed in 18 days…
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Novi Sad to Belgrade on The Danube Bike Trail
The first job on entering a country is to get the internet fixed on the phone, especially when @threeuk want £6 per megabyte! So straight into the Vip shop where to my surprise and utter delight I walked out 5 minutes later with a nano sim already online with 300 megabytes of data for 300RSD…
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Mohàcs to Vukovar on The Danube Bike Trail
No riding on dikes today the initial one was blocked off for resurfacing as in fact the road diversion was too. I guess the Hungarian tarmac manufacturers must be coining it in! I did a little side trip to the battlefield of the so called disaster of Mohacs where Hungary fell to The Turks and…
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Budapest to Dunapataj on The Danube Bike Trail
The things I can recommend The Hotel Rila for are it’s close proximity to the E6 cycleway through Budapest & the price,. Otherwise the breakfast is mediocre ,it’s a long way from any nightlife unless you are visiting the adjacent hospital. Plus the owner is a bit dour.. The sun was out and a tad warmer…
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Danube biking Day 13 – Sturovo to Budapest
Much better weather today with lots of sunshine. However, the temperature has markedly dropped. After some confusion over English numbers, she said €30 for last nights so called dinner but actually meant €13 with the beers. The basilica in Esztergom looks pretty amazing although unfortunately I cycled past more interested in the bridge which was…
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The difference a day makes – Komatron to Sturovo
Yesterday’s top notch cycling conditions were today replaced by heavy squally rain and temperatures down to 10 degrees 🙁 Plus the condition of the paths has noticeably detoriated. The breakfast was disappoining but I guess it was cheap. First stop after getting kitted out in full wet weather gear was the Vodafone.hu shop to get…
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Danube Bike Trail, Day 10 Riding – Vienna to Bratislava
I woke up to pouring rain, so luckily it wasn’t an early start. By the time i had to leave to collect my bike from the repairers the rain had eased off a little. Excellent news on reaching Bike7, the bike was all fixed the shop owner, in jest (I think) offered for me to…