Bryan's Budapest Blog

• Signing off: December 17th, 2012 12 years ago We left Budapest at about 4:30 p.m., drove out along the M1 and crossed the border into Austria at about 7 that evening. I suppose that is the point at which our Hungarian adventure officially came to an end. Three years on.I started this blog back in January 2010, when, arriving in a frozen, grey...
• Day 13 - Challenging preconceptions 12 years ago Vienna - Bratislava (using bikeroutetoaster.com) Perhaps not surprisingly, I did not sleep well. There were noises outside from the roads and the trains and noises in my head about getting back to work, completing my Open University assignment and other reality stuff.So I felt rather dozy when I...
• Day 14 - Back into Hungary 12 years ago Bratislava - Neszmely (using bikeroutetoaster.com) My sleep was filled with an endless montage of places that I had seen over the last two weeks, and I realised that everything was running into a blur. I was grateful for having kept a diary every hour or so along the way, and decided that I would...
• Day 12 - Oh! Vienna! 12 years ago Melk - Vienna (using bikeroutetoaster.com) Another night of very good sleep but weird and vivid dreams. It wass getting harder to get out of bed in the morning: I guessed this was the cumulative effect of day after day of hard cycling, but the end was not too far away now.I realised that I was...
• Day 15 - And he's climbing the stairway to heaven ... 12 years ago Nesmely - Budapest (using bikerouttoaster.com) A peaceful night and good sleep. I woke up at about seven o'clock and could sense that the sky was grey.I had a morning wash and as I walked back to the tent a light drizzle started. Thinking that I could dry everything out when I got home in the...

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