Woke up on June 19 with Jess and Robbie magically in the tent next door. Robbie started building the bikes, but found no front wheel in the box for his bike - was in Ireland. Meant to take off from Budapest that day, but stayed another day to allow for wheel purchase. Fast forward to June 26 on our way out of Mohács Hungary we decided to lighten our load by leaving our camping gear at an apartment. Unfortunately, our passports were safely tucked into our camping gear, so we weren’t allowed into Serbia - hmm, ah well. We made it entirely through the Hungarian portion of the EuroVelo 6 and had only planned a short loop into Serbia and Croatia - not a huge loss. Robbie called it an omen, plus the house we had booked in Serbia wrote us to say the house had recently been flooded and the mosquitos were rampant. Maybe we were better off to stay in Hungary. Trail since Budapest had mostly been on grassy dikes of various quality from half meter tall grass, cut grass, single track gravel, double track gravel, to paved. Overall it has been better than expected.
June 19 - layover day in Budapest. Super loud/live polka music at the campground until 11 pm. Was cool for the first couple songs, then wanted it to stop.
June 20 - biked 51 km from Budapest to Ráckeve. Camped at a 10/10 campground - best on the whole trip (Aqualand). The campground had medicinal baths, playground, kids pool, swim-up pool bar, water slides, full kitchen, washers, etc. The paved path leaving Budapest was heavily overgrown to the point of single track.
June 21 - biked 35 km from Ráckeve to Szalkszentmárton. Trail followed a bumpy / grassy dike. Stayed at a funky hotel called “hotel, fitness, burger”
June 22 - biked 28 km from Szalkszentmárton to Dunaföldvár. Found the first major error in the guidebook; the guide said we’d have to bike with heavy traffic over bridges into Dunaföldvár, but it turned out to be a great bike path separated from traffic.
June 23 - biked 45 km from Dunaföldvár to Kalocsa. Stayed at a super nice hotel with tasting room from local wineries. On our way to Kalocsa we stopped at an amazing coffee shop in Dunapataj; we bought 2 cappuccinos, 1 milk steamer and 2 slices of cake for $6 cad, so cheap.
June 24 - biked 49 km from Kalocsa to Baja. Stayed at an English school slash guesthouse which was very nice and cheap (Bristol Apartment). The owner was from England and was some kind of celebrity from putting a jet engine on a shopping cart. Nice guy and shared his home made palinka (distilled fruit alcohol)
June 25 - biked 41 km from Baja to Mohács. Met a young French couple biking with their two kids aged 2 and 4; they had a very similar setup with a cruiser brand trailer and bucket seat for the older kid. One very smart thing they did was run a string over the handlebars of the trailer a few times back and forth to create a drying line. Biking with kids you’re always hand washing laundry and looking for ways to dry.
June 26 - biked 36 km from Mohács to Hercegszanto. Meant to head for Serbia, as explained above. Approaching the Serbian border there was a significant military presence with about four guys carrying AK47s every 100 m for several kilometres. We’ve been told the military is in place to guard against illegal immigration. A bit shocking to see for Canadians, but reminded Robbie of Northern Ireland in the late 90s.
June 19 - layover day in Budapest. Super loud/live polka music at the campground until 11 pm. Was cool for the first couple songs, then wanted it to stop.
June 20 - biked 51 km from Budapest to Ráckeve. Camped at a 10/10 campground - best on the whole trip (Aqualand). The campground had medicinal baths, playground, kids pool, swim-up pool bar, water slides, full kitchen, washers, etc. The paved path leaving Budapest was heavily overgrown to the point of single track.
June 21 - biked 35 km from Ráckeve to Szalkszentmárton. Trail followed a bumpy / grassy dike. Stayed at a funky hotel called “hotel, fitness, burger”
June 22 - biked 28 km from Szalkszentmárton to Dunaföldvár. Found the first major error in the guidebook; the guide said we’d have to bike with heavy traffic over bridges into Dunaföldvár, but it turned out to be a great bike path separated from traffic.
June 23 - biked 45 km from Dunaföldvár to Kalocsa. Stayed at a super nice hotel with tasting room from local wineries. On our way to Kalocsa we stopped at an amazing coffee shop in Dunapataj; we bought 2 cappuccinos, 1 milk steamer and 2 slices of cake for $6 cad, so cheap.
June 24 - biked 49 km from Kalocsa to Baja. Stayed at an English school slash guesthouse which was very nice and cheap (Bristol Apartment). The owner was from England and was some kind of celebrity from putting a jet engine on a shopping cart. Nice guy and shared his home made palinka (distilled fruit alcohol)
June 25 - biked 41 km from Baja to Mohács. Met a young French couple biking with their two kids aged 2 and 4; they had a very similar setup with a cruiser brand trailer and bucket seat for the older kid. One very smart thing they did was run a string over the handlebars of the trailer a few times back and forth to create a drying line. Biking with kids you’re always hand washing laundry and looking for ways to dry.
June 26 - biked 36 km from Mohács to Hercegszanto. Meant to head for Serbia, as explained above. Approaching the Serbian border there was a significant military presence with about four guys carrying AK47s every 100 m for several kilometres. We’ve been told the military is in place to guard against illegal immigration. A bit shocking to see for Canadians, but reminded Robbie of Northern Ireland in the late 90s.
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