Now we are in Vienna.....seriously, the most wonderfull city we´ve been to so far.
Its...well "beautiful", but its not only its beauty that impress us, but also the very kind and helpfull austrian people, that we met anywhere.
For example yesterday, when we had to find some special little sidestreet in the center, a taxidriver helped us finding it, by using his GPS and then drove there will we just followed him on our bikes.
Now thats service!!
And of course the most valuable thing is probably that there are trails - and even very special parkingplaces - for the bicycles everywhere we go, and there are clear signs to follow so even a halfblind alien could find its way around.
So, we are here in the city that most of the worlds footballfans have their eyes on today, when Germany meets Spain in the Euro 2008 final. The entire city is set in Football today, and there are big groups of fans singing on every corner with a giant patrol of policemen watching them from the other side.
This Morning - something like 04:30 we got awake because of a group of VERY drunk spaniards decided to stand down by our hotelwindow and yell out their teamsongs, which is not very interesing for people who´re trying to have some sleep, but I think that some policemen came by and stopped them, because after some pretty entusiastic perfomance they got quiet out of a sudden.
We are looking forward to be in the center for the worlds attention for just one night!
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Leaving Bratislava
Fot the first time on this tour, we actually feel bad about leaving a place.
We didnt know anything particular about Bratislava before we came here - except that James Bond came by for a short while back in 1987 in the movie "living daylights". But now we know this city in and out ( we are walking pretty much around everyday on our search for the bestiaries) and we have a feeling that if we go back there, we could find any certain interesting attraction there faster than Garfield finds lasagne!
Anyway, we left it now and suddenly our lives as bicycleriders bacme much easiere, bacause all the way up to Vienna from Bratislava can be done on special bicycleroads, that turns in and out of small " gemütliche" villages, through the big crops and cornfields, through the woods over small bridges ( the Donau has many small arms that stretches into the land) and suddenly before you know it you are in Vienna, and you didnt need to go on any dangerous road at anytime.
Just nice :-)
We didnt know anything particular about Bratislava before we came here - except that James Bond came by for a short while back in 1987 in the movie "living daylights". But now we know this city in and out ( we are walking pretty much around everyday on our search for the bestiaries) and we have a feeling that if we go back there, we could find any certain interesting attraction there faster than Garfield finds lasagne!
Anyway, we left it now and suddenly our lives as bicycleriders bacme much easiere, bacause all the way up to Vienna from Bratislava can be done on special bicycleroads, that turns in and out of small " gemütliche" villages, through the big crops and cornfields, through the woods over small bridges ( the Donau has many small arms that stretches into the land) and suddenly before you know it you are in Vienna, and you didnt need to go on any dangerous road at anytime.
Just nice :-)
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Boiled up to Bratislava!!
Hello again.
We are in Slovakia now. In Bratislava - city with the ice cold water.... and that was needed.
We did something very stupid on our way up to the slovakian capital.
We were driving all day - especially in the burning midday sun - from 9 in the morning to 6 in the evening.....the temperature was 35 degrees celcius - in the shade... and there were no shade where we were driving !
My goodness we fellt that we were burning all evening and all night long. We drank so much water - and it all stayed inside ( if you know what I mean). seems like we really needed that.
Okay a great lesson was learned there - use our bad experience yourself - BE CAREFULL WITH THE SUN!!!
Anyway we are in Slovakia and most things are suddenly much cheaper than they were in Hungary or Croatia - except for the accomodation-prices. We feel that we sometimes got cheated somehow in the hotels.
We try not to complain to much, because the food is plenty, the beers are great and the girls are " mama mia" :-) (gothic, voluptous and they are everywhere.... especially drinking beers in the bars)
There are many austrian bicycledrivers here in Bratislava - no wonder since the austrian capital Vienna is only 55 kilometers away from here - we have a feeling that nowhere in the world can you find 2 capitals placed so closed to eachother. We took a circel around the Donau river that crosses the city here as it did in Budapest and will later in Vienna. We suddenly found a bicycleroad there and it looks like - atleast on the map - that its possible to stay on that all the way up into the core of Vienna. Now that is really great news for us, since we are pretty tired of big trucks and other "animals" in their fast cars trying to pushing us on the road - we allready saw 2 car accidents and was close to one planecrash (!)
After some problems in the beginning with hurting backs, knees and especially the :sittingpillows" its like we are on the way to getting use to all this biking. We eat and drink like maniacs when we got the chance for it - we never leave anything back on the plates where ever we go, because we just need everything we can possibly stuff into ourselve.... you know, its actually a really nice feeling :-) just biking, eating,taking pictures, drinking beers and sleep.
Pictures from Ezstergom and the road up to Bratislava will be posted sometime tomorrow.
Greetings from Bratislava - Bernard and Jesper
We are in Slovakia now. In Bratislava - city with the ice cold water.... and that was needed.
We did something very stupid on our way up to the slovakian capital.
We were driving all day - especially in the burning midday sun - from 9 in the morning to 6 in the evening.....the temperature was 35 degrees celcius - in the shade... and there were no shade where we were driving !
My goodness we fellt that we were burning all evening and all night long. We drank so much water - and it all stayed inside ( if you know what I mean). seems like we really needed that.
Okay a great lesson was learned there - use our bad experience yourself - BE CAREFULL WITH THE SUN!!!
Anyway we are in Slovakia and most things are suddenly much cheaper than they were in Hungary or Croatia - except for the accomodation-prices. We feel that we sometimes got cheated somehow in the hotels.
We try not to complain to much, because the food is plenty, the beers are great and the girls are " mama mia" :-) (gothic, voluptous and they are everywhere.... especially drinking beers in the bars)
There are many austrian bicycledrivers here in Bratislava - no wonder since the austrian capital Vienna is only 55 kilometers away from here - we have a feeling that nowhere in the world can you find 2 capitals placed so closed to eachother. We took a circel around the Donau river that crosses the city here as it did in Budapest and will later in Vienna. We suddenly found a bicycleroad there and it looks like - atleast on the map - that its possible to stay on that all the way up into the core of Vienna. Now that is really great news for us, since we are pretty tired of big trucks and other "animals" in their fast cars trying to pushing us on the road - we allready saw 2 car accidents and was close to one planecrash (!)
After some problems in the beginning with hurting backs, knees and especially the :sittingpillows" its like we are on the way to getting use to all this biking. We eat and drink like maniacs when we got the chance for it - we never leave anything back on the plates where ever we go, because we just need everything we can possibly stuff into ourselve.... you know, its actually a really nice feeling :-) just biking, eating,taking pictures, drinking beers and sleep.
Pictures from Ezstergom and the road up to Bratislava will be posted sometime tomorrow.
Greetings from Bratislava - Bernard and Jesper
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Days in Budapest
Hello again- from time to time there will be a brake with messages on this blog, because its not always easy to find an internetcafe here in this country - hopefully things will soon turn into progress so we can update every day - we will see.
We have been in the hungarian capital Budapest for 3 days now, and will leave later this morning to our next destination, the town Esztergom only about 50 km north from Budapest. Yes its not a far distance, but its very hot here now - 30-35 degress celcius, and we need a little more time to edit all or recordings, photos etc.
Budapest - the old center - is extremely beautifull. The might river Donau crosses straight throug and divides the Buda and the Pest....Donau hmmm its not blue! lightbrown is a much better describtion. But okay we can live with that - its always nice with a view to some waterfront.
Wew found a nice hostel on top of a hill, with a great view to the city. Its a combined hostel and restaurantbusiness driven by a family.
We dont have much time to write in now, but hope that we can bring some more updates later - perhaps allready later today - we hope so.
see you.
We have been in the hungarian capital Budapest for 3 days now, and will leave later this morning to our next destination, the town Esztergom only about 50 km north from Budapest. Yes its not a far distance, but its very hot here now - 30-35 degress celcius, and we need a little more time to edit all or recordings, photos etc.
Budapest - the old center - is extremely beautifull. The might river Donau crosses straight throug and divides the Buda and the Pest....Donau hmmm its not blue! lightbrown is a much better describtion. But okay we can live with that - its always nice with a view to some waterfront.
Wew found a nice hostel on top of a hill, with a great view to the city. Its a combined hostel and restaurantbusiness driven by a family.
We dont have much time to write in now, but hope that we can bring some more updates later - perhaps allready later today - we hope so.
see you.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Balaton
Today we reached the hungarian resort nr 1 - the Balatonlake.... but nobody is here right now! it feels like we got the entire lake for ourselve. Only a few old fishermen and people working with dogs appear from time to time.
we came to this little "touristtown" named Balatonbaltog ( all the towns here are named something with "Balaton") after riding throug the southern hungarian area - an area rich in fields of all kinds - mostly corn and sunflowers, but also very large areas where they grow wine.
The sun was shining all day, so of course we both get sunburned, since we are almost to used to the rainyweather - but what the h... we prefere sunshine. Together with a mostly flat landscape and cardrivers who are not always as crazy as in Croatia, this area actually seems as something close to a paradise for bikeriders. We are even starting to see more and more trails for the bikes!
We took a lot of funny pictures and made small films during the day. We will post them here on this site as soon as its possible for us.
see you.
we came to this little "touristtown" named Balatonbaltog ( all the towns here are named something with "Balaton") after riding throug the southern hungarian area - an area rich in fields of all kinds - mostly corn and sunflowers, but also very large areas where they grow wine.
The sun was shining all day, so of course we both get sunburned, since we are almost to used to the rainyweather - but what the h... we prefere sunshine. Together with a mostly flat landscape and cardrivers who are not always as crazy as in Croatia, this area actually seems as something close to a paradise for bikeriders. We are even starting to see more and more trails for the bikes!
We took a lot of funny pictures and made small films during the day. We will post them here on this site as soon as its possible for us.
see you.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
first step is taken!
We got delayed with one day caused by to much stress about getting the right equipment, not enough sleep, Croatia beating germany in football - Zagreb was an inferno of noise from celebrating people that night - a huge rainstorm etc ( and now I will stop crying), but finally we made it out of the biggest city in Croatia.
Like I was afraid of allready before the beginning came true. Zagreb was NOT made for those who enjoy ridning a bike. So many holes in the roads, and so many "busy" cars and trucks constantly pushing our nerves. But we get out of there alive - and now I must also be fair to the croats, because about 30 km away from zagreb the conditions of the roads actually turned to be much better.
We drove through the rich fertile landscapes of Slavonia, and that healed our nerves to watch so many fields blooming and so much nature all around - every small town here with just a little selfrespect seem to have a couple of storks nesting in the center. So romantic!!
145,6 km was the distance between Bernards home in Zagreb and the residence of the Tomljanovicfamily who have been taking more than care of us for about 2 days now.
We have been spoiled with homemade sausage, hams, bread, cookies, vegetables, juices of all kinds, wine and Slivovica etc the motto here seems to be " eat my friend - just eat whenever you want"!.... we appreciate that motto pretty much I can tell you.
Especially Bernard deserved to be spoiled for a while. Both of his weels get flat during the ride, and none of the times was it caused by the tie, but from the weel itself inside. Life isnt fair.His mood was almost broken because of that - when it start to rain and made us completely wet just before we have to go down from some hills ( that makes you very cold too I can tell you), it definitely didnt make anything better.
But thanks to the great hospitality we met here in Virovitica we are up again now. We even found our first bestiaries here in this small town.
Hmmm I must admit that I feel sad to leave this nice place allready, but we are now wellfeeded and can use this stay as a jumpboard into Hungary.
We hope to reach the Balatonlake tomorrow and install ourselve in some hostell or hotel before Croatia plays against Poland ( 20.45)
Like I was afraid of allready before the beginning came true. Zagreb was NOT made for those who enjoy ridning a bike. So many holes in the roads, and so many "busy" cars and trucks constantly pushing our nerves. But we get out of there alive - and now I must also be fair to the croats, because about 30 km away from zagreb the conditions of the roads actually turned to be much better.
We drove through the rich fertile landscapes of Slavonia, and that healed our nerves to watch so many fields blooming and so much nature all around - every small town here with just a little selfrespect seem to have a couple of storks nesting in the center. So romantic!!
145,6 km was the distance between Bernards home in Zagreb and the residence of the Tomljanovicfamily who have been taking more than care of us for about 2 days now.
We have been spoiled with homemade sausage, hams, bread, cookies, vegetables, juices of all kinds, wine and Slivovica etc the motto here seems to be " eat my friend - just eat whenever you want"!.... we appreciate that motto pretty much I can tell you.
Especially Bernard deserved to be spoiled for a while. Both of his weels get flat during the ride, and none of the times was it caused by the tie, but from the weel itself inside. Life isnt fair.His mood was almost broken because of that - when it start to rain and made us completely wet just before we have to go down from some hills ( that makes you very cold too I can tell you), it definitely didnt make anything better.
But thanks to the great hospitality we met here in Virovitica we are up again now. We even found our first bestiaries here in this small town.
Hmmm I must admit that I feel sad to leave this nice place allready, but we are now wellfeeded and can use this stay as a jumpboard into Hungary.
We hope to reach the Balatonlake tomorrow and install ourselve in some hostell or hotel before Croatia plays against Poland ( 20.45)
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The day before starting
Hello and welcome to our blog.
(we hope that your english is even as good or as bad as ours, so we will be able to tell you some updates during our tour)
We will start tomorrow morning at around 5 o clock in the morning from Zagreb - the traffic in Zagreb is usually awfull and was definitely not invented for people who likes to ride a bicycle.
Our hope is that the traffic will be on its lowest in the early morning and that it will be mostly in to Zagreb and not so bad out from it.
our first goal is the town Virovitica, which is near the border to Hungary.
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