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Planning for South East Europe

We have just had a forward planning meeting and here’s what has been loosely decided… Croatia – we’re still planning to spend about 2 weeks in Croatia.  Our research has shown that most of the ‘things to do’ are along the coast, about 500km from our current location. This would mean that to be here […]

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Hungarian round-up…

Even though we have spent 3 weeks in total in Hungary we haven’t done as much cycling as we might have expected, as there was a lot of socialising to be done! We had a day off up in the north east, time off in Budapest, holidayed on Lake Balaton and chilled in Pecs. Hungary […]

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More friendly Hungarians

We packed up our camp in slow motion.  When we set up it seemed like a good idea to be in the shade, but the tent was pretty dewy when woke and it took a while to dry out, which we did by following the sun in different, empty, pitches. As we left the site […]

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The road to Communism…

Firstly, we neglected to mention in the last entry that we really like Budapest! It’s a great city with loads to do and see and we barely touched on what it has to offer, so I think we’ll be back sometime in the future. I have mentioned before that getting into a city on a […]

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Blimey, who turned up the heat?

So, after a couple of days staying put in the lush hills of the National Park it was time to pack up and set off again. As mentioned in the last blog we’re heading in the general direction of Budapest to meet up with Katie and Jo, so southwest was our loose direction for today. […]

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Dakujem (thank you) Slovakia!

First and foremost we had an unexpectedly great time in Slovakia. Why was it unexpected? I think that our expectations were somewhat similar to what we had expected of Poland and the Czech Republic, i.e. not very high. This first point follows a similar theme to those other two countries, in that, once again we […]

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