On July 22nd, after 50 days between the Balkans and Eastern Europe, I started the long way to the North.
Shortly before leaving Serbia, I bought a panama hat; I promised myself I would cross the entire Hungary – from South to North – just riding my bicycle, with that panama always on my head.
I spent the first night in a tent in Baja, before challenging myself into a record stage (180 KM) and then resting for four days in beautiful and touristic Budapest.
The Danube then escorted me to the pretty town of Esztergom (ancient Strigonio, for the Romans) and to the culmination of my dull project: on the bridge which marks the border between Hungary and Slovakia – between the sisters cities of Komarom and Komarno – I took the last selfie wearing the panama I bought in Serbia.
Hungary – an extremely welcoming country, even though in some other ways an incredibly closed and isolated one – was officially “completed”. On a bicycle.... Read More
HUNGARY: Baja, Budapest and Esztergom … on a bicycle (22-28 July | Days 51-57)
