Packup day. Monday

Plan today is to get ready to fly.

Need bike boxes, but problematic in Budapest.  Long walk visiting bike shops. No joy. Concierge on the phone.  No joy. Mg on internet strikes it lucky and locates them at a bike hire place quite a walk away

Whilst waiting we give our steeds a wipe down. Tooth brush and wipes....dont want them confiscated as contraband carriers.

Lug the boxes back, dismantle and pack the bikes then reward ourselves with the local hungarian brew borsodi. Delicious

Goan fish curry

Ice cream for mg because the curry was so hot.

Pack bags.

Bed

Sunday in budapest

What a day. Bring on the blue sky and the 28 degrees.

Mark says i must be feeling better as i cracked my first joke in days. At his expense of course

Hop on hop off bus with a stop at the citadel.

Beer for lunch

Rest

Dinner at a hungarian restaurant with jazz band. Nice. Salmon followed by beef goulash

A beer too many i think

Travel by train damnit to budapest

After a review of my knee and of the traffic filled roads we would have to travel, we chickened out of the final section bradislava to budapest, and hopped a train.

Uneventful 2 hrs 45 then cycle to centrooms house our new home for 3 nights

Beer and a light hungarian lunch of sausage and salad...oh yes, and crackle pieces

Rest for me, more bookreading.

Then outdoor bar for hungary v iceland, a beer then goan prawn curry and chicken tikka. Great.

Saving the goulash for tomorrow.

Monday's challenge is to find boxes for the bikes

Friday in bratislava

Lazy breakfast at the urban cafe, smashed avo on bread then check out so that we can move 830 metres to a new hotel.

A brief cycle to the river and thru the old town before arriving at hotel saffron. A two hour wait before check in, so coffee, ice the knee and internet.

A restful arvo before the usual beers and chinese

Thursday to bratislava

Breakfast.
Pack
Flat tyre
Cycle to vienna hauptbahnhof.  Shit
Farewell mark who rides on
Train
Cycle to hotel
Carry bike up 500 fucking stairs
Slump
Limp down 500 fucking stairs
Restorative beer (for mark) on his arrival.
Marching band
Craft beers and endamame beans
Slav dinner
Noisy night

Wednesday in Vienna

Rest day today. So i did

Mark out and about

I had a massage on leg to see if it would improve.  It didnt

Beers dinner and and soccer at local restaurant. Tyroler rostl for me

Bed

Tuesday is pain day. .. to vienna

So, here we go again. Didnt think I'd get going today, lotsa pain and about 30 minutes to warm enough to pedal.

Lovely flat riding , some sunshine and again we dodged the thunderstorms.

Cake with my coffee today to cheer me up.  Mark very patient with the slow going but we still achieved 20kmph.

Cycling through vienna traffic to hotel lucia a bit tedious.

Hotel desk man fantastic with help to get a sports massage treatment.

Beers whilst watching austria hungry then you guessed it.  Chinese for dinner.  Thu usual fantastic crispy duck and the piece de resistance sizzling platter spicy fish. WOW

Cya