This section of the Danube is very flat so would be easy to whizz through but we’ve been enjoying learning about Hungary. Interesting fact the potato beetle came over from America in 1947 and the potato industry has never fully recovered, which could explain whilst there seems to be a lot of rice and pasta. Little villages dotted our route today, we stopped for coffee and tea at one restaurant which had the traditional thick thatched roof , no cake was offeredthough. Lunch was 10kms before Gyor, the owner of the restaurant managed to explain the menu of the day in his broken english. He said he had just put together a traditional hungarian menu for foreign tourists and we should come back to try it., not sure how we are going to fit that in. Still menu of the day was very nice onion soup followed by deep fried cheese balls with rice delicious.This area is where the Danube has deposited so much silt over its journey that it has formed a large flood plain which has been made into a nature reserve. Great for walking, horse riding etc need a few days around here.

We’ve discovered in Hungary everyone ignores bike path closed signs and you just go on the path till you meet the digger then walk round, easy.! No need for diversions.

More cyclists en route today about 3 small groups and a few individuals/ couples. So it is getting slightly busier, not sure how it will work if the paths get too busy as all the locals cycle. Most of the women seem to go to the shops on their bikes so can be quite difficult to pass on the narrow paths. Yesterday in the rain the ladies had huge umbrellas attached to their bikes when going shopping so you just had to wait for them to turn off.

Gyor another very scenic historic town, fully pedestrianised centre making it really lovely to walk around, the cathedral even has its own painting of the madonna that can weep on st patricks day…note photo of hubby sitting on roman artifacts outside the museum, he got told off..

Another beautiful day en route to Komoron although the humidity started to build up early so we were rapidly stripping off. As we left Gyor we encountered 3 very elderly english cyclists raising funds for parkinson research. We last saw them as they cycled past Bony where we were sitting having tea and coffee, no morning tea break for them, very impressive.The pub in Bony were very happy we stopped there as most cyclists seemed to be just stopping at the supermarket. From Bony hubby decided we should take the main Eurovelo route 6 even though it did say consider the alternative route after heavy rain, which it certainly was just a day ago.

So it wasnt long before we were trying to manouevre along a very muddy earth track, fine for hubbys tough road but on the limits of my touring bike. I managed to stay upright just. Earlier that day we’d had a section of really rough large gravel stones which was bad enough but this was worse. Luckily the mud only lasted for about 4kms after that it was just pot holes.Our next village of Acs we decided to stop for lunch and had a great menu of the day at a beautiful cafe but coming out ready for a snooze we struggled to find any signs for the bike route. .I was trying to find the alternative route to avoid the next bad muddy section, after a few wasted kms we gave up and headed off for some more mud. All I will say is that we were pretty tired by the time we arrived at our hotel. The thermal baths looked inviting but you had to pay the excessive daily rates so we’ll go in the next town. Storms have started I hope the rain is over by morning..