Just have fun in Btarislava

                                                       A street in Bratislava

                                                       The old watertower in Gyor

                                           One of the bike paths in Hungary as we near Tata

                                                  The paths are getting narrower

 In Bratislava the dancers celebrate with dance and song


As we prepared to leave Bratislava our next destination we are heading for is Gyor in the country of Hungary. As we entered Hungary we expected to see some evidence that we would be coming into what was once a communist country,but there was no indication of this.. We were pleasantly surprised to see bike paths that were freshly paved and more of them being worked on.. As we biked deeper into Hungary we started to see some changes in the economy , in that their homes were neat but showed a lack of upkeep.
When we arrived in Gyor we soon found our pension(hotel) . It was clean but had only the bare essentials - however for 35 E a night we can't complain. We ate supper at the pension and had a delicious meal and fine wine for only 25E . We are seeing more game meats and goulash with lots of potatoes as a favourite.
The next morning we left for Tata . As we biked out of town we met up with an Aussie who was biking from England to Australia. He had been on the road since April but he was hoping to be in Australia sometime in 2014. He was riding for cancer and hoping to raise money (www.cycling4cancer.com). He was a great guy and had lots of stories . He had pics of himself in the alps in snow and even had to pitch his tent on snow one night.
As we went deeper into Hungary the roads got worse quite quickly. Our back lane ways in the fields at home look like highways compared to some of our terrain today. For a short distance we needed a machete but the road soon smoothed out and we arrived unscathed in the town of Tata where we look forward to having our first swim and maybe another bier.