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31 August 2018
At times I have to pinch myself to remind myself of what we are doing and arriving in Belgrade was one of those moments. Hard to believe that we have cycled the whole way from London to here! Belgrade or Beograd as it’s known here (which means white city, because of the white stones used […]
26 August 2018
Despite only having been here for 9 days we have still managed to make a fair number of observations on life and the culture in Croatia, which are: 1. People are really friendly with so many cars and trucks beeping (in a friendly way!) and people waving and calling our hello to us on our […]
25 August 2018
Neither of us slept particular well because of the noise of the motorway, which seemed to go ALL night, so we were back on the road again at 7.45 heading towards Vukovar, on the river Danube on the Serbian border. The temperatures have gone up again so we have decided on early starts to get […]
20 August 2018
Leaving Hungary and crossing into Croatia is the first manned border exit and entry checkpoint we have cycled on our trip. It does seem rather bizarre considering they are both EU member countries and we’ve been through plenty of others where there was absolutely nothing! There was also no sign of the much-publicised anti-migrant fence […]
15 August 2018
One thing that we forgot to include on the last blog entry that fits nicely below this heading, was that on the last night at the campsite in Vekeny, there was a meteor storm and we were lucky enough to see about 6 shooting stars. At the same time we could see Venus, Mars, Saturn […]
10 August 2018
So, as Nigel finished off in his last post we arrived at Hotel Lelle in Balatonlelle to spend 2 nights with Eva, Richard, and her family (Mum, Dad, sister, 14-year old neice and 11-year old nephew) to experience a real Hungarian holiday! The hotel has not had an upgrade since it’s communist days, when apparently […]