We left Bratislava, but not before a photo at the Blue Church. A famous building in town.
After our 5 minutes of sightseeing, we then had a rather featureless pedal along the river dyke for 20kms or so.
We then came across a new motorway bridge. Here we chose to cross the river to avoid more boring dykes and see some of the countryside in Hungary away from the river.
We crossed on a very swish cycle path attached to the side of this bridge. Great views of the wide river
The stork had arrived back to his nest and was making it even grander.
Hungary was much less busy on the cycle trail. It seemed much less populated than our previous countries. The trails all were separate to the road but followed the same route so the traffic noise was always there.
Either side the countryside comprised of massive fields of very friable, fertile soil. The lands stretched as far as you could see, punctuated by clouds of dust emerging from the back of enormous tractors pulling wide machinery preparing seedbeds.
They had planted trees alongside the path, but now the roots were lifting the tarmac so they acted like speed bumps; not great on a bike!
A long hot day of cycling and we arrived in Györ at 6pm to find our booked apartment had no reception and no one would answer the phone to give us the code to get in😡 Not what we needed.
Luckily a nearby hotel had a room with a very helpful receptionist, and after bumping the bikes down stairs into the dungeon, we were settled for the night.
Euro Vélo Route 6 