Heviz was a perfect town to chill in. The average age of visitors must be at least 70, so we felt quite young.It is compulsory to wear a ring noodle or rubber ring in the thermal lake as parts are 38metres deep, so most accommodation provides them for you to take down to the lake.Very funny seeing everyone walking along with their noodle rings. Heviz is the largest thermal therapeutic lake in the world, it was a pleasant 30C in the water. Apparently in summer it can reach 38C which wouldn’t be pleasant. The other large thermal lake in the world is Rotorua but that is scalding hot so you can’t swim in it. It was quite an amazing forested lake even though fairly busy plenty of room to bob around in, and for those who worship the sun plenty of sunloungers.Even hubby who normally wouldnot go near a spa enjoyed the experience. We did go and investigate the mud packs and massage but mud therapy was 60 euros for 40 mins fairly pricey for a bit of mud, the mud is at 42C which sounds a bit hot to me. I didn’t realise the mud is also full of sulphur and as I’m allergic to sulphur I wasn’t sure whether getting sulphur through your skin would cause a massive allergic reaction. I didnt fancy experimenting anyway.

There were plenty of massage places around the town so I had an excellent Hungarian remedial massage all for 8 euros. All the knots undone in legs and back I’m now ready to cycle another 1,000 kms. Hubby didn’t fancy a massage from a well muscled Hungarian so opted for a thai massage . I think he had forgotten they use their elbows on really tight muscles, ouch.

Tomorrow we are off to the border town of Lenti, which borders Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia.There are no cycle paths so we are hoping Saturday morning won’t be too busy on the roads.

We awoke and got ready for an early exit as we weren’t looking forwards to our big day cycling to the border town Lenti on a main road the E75. Fortunately being Saturday the road wasnt that busy and suprisingly beautiful, tbrough farmlands and dense forests. Unfortunately what we hadnt realised was it was undulating tne whole way but you never got enough speed up to get all the way up the next hill so it was a slog to the top , in what ended up as the warmest day in ages 26C. Stops worked out well in the few small villages en route, a coffee in a small pub in Pacsa, buying more water in a coop in Baki and lunch in a small pub in Nova. They were great in Nova we felt like honoured guests as they made room for us on the comfy chairs or maybe we looked a bit hot and bothered.

So thinking we’d find nothing on our way we arrived in Lenti still hydrated and not totally wrecked after the 69kms . There were plenty of signs warning of deer but we didn’t see any although lots of small animals as road kill from hedgehogs to squirrels.There were only signs banning bikes off the E75 road for the last 6kms but a bike path was provided then. We did wear our bright fluoro yellow vests compulsory by law in Hungary but we didn’t see any other cyclists wearing them, so maybe its not enforced.We are in a small pension tonight not a lot of choice in these smaller towns, so I guess we’ll be awake early with the flimsy curtains! We cross the border into Slovenia tomorrow, we’ve really enjoyed our 15 days in Hungary, quite suprisingly what a great interesting country and helpful people.Slovenia is hilly we know and not many trains take bikes, but we do want to reach Ljublana the capital in a few days. Tomorrow we’re on a farm tbe only accomodation we could find..I hope it can be located ok!