Right after my trip to San Francisco, I had around 2 weeks of leave! Mum and Dad very kindly invited me to come on holiday with them. They were going to be cycling around 400km from Vienna to Budapest!
I decided I might as well join them and get a bit of exercise!
Right after I landed from San Fran I quickly packed my bags and headed back to the airport for an overnight flight to Vienna. I made my way to their hotel and our first day of cycling was from Vienna to Bratislava.
Most of the route was right along the Danube river on cycling paths.
We stopped along the way by a huge cherry tree and Dad insisted that I climb the tree to get cherries for us!
Once we arrived at our hotel in Bratislava, we had a nice walk around the city before dinner. There was some kind of food festival going on, so we just couldn’t pass up a glass of wine for 50 cents each!
The next day our route took us from Bratislava to Mosonmagyarovar, in Hungary. (Not the easiest name to pronounce!)
A lot of the way we were cycling along gravel paths, which was very tough going!
Passing by fields and fields full of beautiful white poppies.
After Mosonmagyarovar, our next stop was Györ, also in Hungary.
The company that organises the cycling holidays arranges all the hotels for you, and every morning they come and pick up your suitcases and drop them off at the next hotel. Very handy for us, as it meant we didn’t have to carry anything with us except what we needed for the day.
From Györ we cycled back into Slovakia, to a town called Komarno. It’s actually in both Slovakia and Hungary, split into two parts by the Danube river. We stayed on the Slovakian side, and whilst exploring we discovered some beautiful buildings in the town.
Our second last day took us from Komarno to Visegrad, back into Hungary. I think this was one of the longest routes we did, at about 80km!
Finally on our last day of cycling we went from Visegrad to Budapest.
We stopped off at a very picturesque little town on the way called Szentendre, which was absolutely full of tourists!
Once we finally made it to Budapest we were pretty much all cycled out!
Luckily we had two days here to do some exploring and sightseeing…and all of those pictures will be in my next post! 🙂
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