Ruth: The Hungarian plains are the land of the bicycle. Not only is the area flat and well suited to riding, but everybody rides one. The more I looked around the small town we have been passing through the more I realized that the majority... Read More

Gordon:  One of the delights of slow, self-propelled travel is the unexpected sights between the known ones.  Today we had such an experience.  We were poking along on a small road in the middle of nowhere when we spied an airplane in a field.  "That's... Read More

Ruth:No wonder the Ottomans were determined to possess this area, it's a geothermal gold mine. Every town we pass seems to have thermal pools. None of them anything like the ancient Ottoman one we visited in Budapest, but all promising a range of medical benefits... Read More

Gordon:  We have read that the Danube valley is not the most interesting area of Romania.  As a result we made the decision to leave the Danube in Budapest and for the past two days we have been heading east towards Transylvania.The plains of Hungary... Read More

Ruth: I love Budapest. We have been enjoying  the city and our little apartment just a few blocks from the Parliament on the Pest side of the river.  After two busy days of walking, art museums and sightseeing, this afternoon we shifted fully into rest... Read More

Yesterday was Gord's 59th birthday and I wanted it to be special so we cycled  for sixty kilometres in steady rain. The forecast kept being revised throughout the day, pushing the time back on when the rain would  actually stop. We were mostly up on... Read More