Danube - Mosonmagyarovar to Komarom

Great spot to overnight last night!  Breakfast was a whopping €7 each - welcome to Hungary! Beer is $2 for a 20oz - Steve is happy! Discovered how to get Hungarian hot sauce, which Jess introduced us to - just ask for it! Mosonmagyarovar - there are 350 dentists in this very little town - medical tourism spot!

Fields, fields and more fields.  Saw wheat, sunflowers, strawberries and loads of corn!  One individual field we saw must have been a mile long and its watering thing / sprinkler was a quarter of a mile long!

We are recalibrating our definition of bumps since arriving in Hungary.  Bumps are tricky because I cannot see nor prepare for bumps at all so there is a constant stream of communication from the front - ‘stand up’, ‘freewheel’ and most often ‘bump’.  ‘Bump’ giving me warning every time we come across a bump obviously.  Here, Steve was saying ‘bump’ every minute or so.  While we love the shady trees on this route, we don’t like the roots of the shady trees which are making the asphalt all bumpy.  There is a new definition of bumps for us and bump warnings - it’s now a bump so big it can bring us (me) off the seat!

Stopped for coffee at 9am.  Everyone else was having their morning beer… 

Went to Gyor for lunch, which was gorgeous and we would go back again.  Great selection of dishes for lunch.  Germany and Austria were great for schnitzel.  We love schnitzel, but not for both lunch and dinner daily (well, mostly, but not quite - schnitzel is REALLY good!).  My new favourite is garlic soup - don’t turn your nose up until you’ve tried it, in Slovakia or Hungary - amazing!

It was all cross-country today, didn’t see the river at all.  When we checked out the map there were two paths going right along both sides of the river - why did we not go that way?!  When we looked at the map in detail we realised, it was gravel - miles and miles and miles of gravel. No thank you!  We had some tree root bumpy paths, but we also had a wonderful long cycle ‘road’ from not far out of Gyor to Komarom, where we’re staying tonight.  Managed to find our hotel / rather large apartment, with its washing machine, first try!

Looked around for restaurants, asking Google. The best rated one was a 4.8 and in our hotel - guess we’ll stay here for dinner.  Catfish Goulash - delicious!  Kraut salad.  Pork medallions wrapped in bacon.  Pickle salad.  Zwack and chocolate soufflé.  It was all really good.  Perfect ending to our second long day in a row!

Btw - Over 600 miles now, have only seen 3 tandems.  We also have some very odd tan marks…

Comments:

1. Stephen HodgsonJune 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM

   It’s starting to feel a bit Mediterranean as we go further south in terms of the climate and culture. Tonight we are in a kind of upmarket “Billy Butlins” (Holiday Resort) with self catering apartments arranged around swimming pools with restaurants and bars. Folks still swimming and lying in the sun until it set. Last night there was definitely some “promenading” going on (whole families dressed up and out for a walk as the heat of the day subsided) dinner didn’t really get going till the sun had set. We need to explore more of Eastern Europe, I think it has huge potential. Interesting to see the difference in the generations, older guys sitting about, nattering, drinking beer and smoking at 8 am on Saturday mornings (I am guessing the legacy of the Cold War years), the younger ones, most speak English, very personable, I am sure they will be a “force to be reckoned with” into the future… I think we will be back at some point, hopefully it won’t be so bumpy!!!
2. 
   BrianJune 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM

   Beers only $2??? Yeah, I'd be drinking beer for breakfast too! Enjoy, Steve!