It’s 280 km to Budapest from Harkany so i thought 90km a day for 3 days will get me into Budapest for dinner Saturday night, maybe but not likely i could make a show at the jazz club…. Anyway, i made pretty good time riding mostly on bike paths and quiet country lanes through fields, vineyards, and small villages, rolling hills with beautiful vistas yes I wished I had gone to the trouble for a helmet cam words don’t do justice and you can’t always stop mid way up or down to snap a photo, to the halfway point at Mohacs, outside of there i got onto the EuroVelo 6 route, which i will take all the way back to Germany now. Before it got there though, there was an interesting roadside war memorial, just outside of Satorhely, which memorializes the war of 1526 where the Ottoman Army of Turks, led by Suleiman, defeated the army of King Louis II. You can zoom in the photo read the full story, I didn’t go all in on the tour it getting late in the day, and not really wanting to view mass graves of 20 some thousand soldiers.
Once in Mohacs there was an interesting memorial but i never found out what is was about… didn’t want to stop to translate signs.. so… onward, but guess what this is where the EV 6 crosses the Danube, but there’s no bridge! Only a ferry, and with the river still flooded, nope no ferry, so… they proposed an alternate route going back the way i came then downriver to a crossing and back up, which would have added about 30 km to the trip… so smart me, i figured a shortcut lol staying on this side and going up north, which i did, and i found out why they recommend the other route, hills, big hills a few real leg killers, and so after all that i tried another short cut lol and ended up on a terrible rock road which then turned into broken concrete and cobbles… so much for my shortcut and when i finally got headed the right direction to Baja i was 20 km on a narrow big road rt 55 which had no shoulder worse than that the right side of the lane was either chewed up, lumpy, or gone altogether, so for about 75 minutes i shared this with big trucks and cars going pretty fast, it was hm a bit testing of the nerves… there would have been side rock gravel dirt pathways to take but everything was flooded from the Danube for a long long way…. Anyway finally got to Baja about 515 and booked into the Foter Panzio which is off the main square a basic hotel for 48 euro a night, nice room just pretty basic decor but the shower was fine plenty of hot water and i got a double bed which is two twins stuck together, with a courtyard view where people are drinking and partying out there so I’ll have to close the window and turn on the air to sleep.
Good shower, got dressed went out to dinner on the square, walked all around it and a block of pedestrian mall to end up right by the hotel at Moro, had a really good and filling dinner of fresh salad and pasta carbonara , white sauce w cheese and some little bits of ham, and a glass of local wine. Was real good only 6800 florints. The are about 355 to the dollar so $19. anyway, its a real pretty romantic town on the Danube.
Good night!
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What an adventure you’re having!
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