We are in Dubai sitting in the transit lounge waiting for our connecting flight to Christchurch via Sydney (probably). It’s 27 degrees outside but cool in the huge duty free shopping centre. The flight from Germany was ok but it’s hard not too feel blahh after traveling.
All our German chocolate is still intact. We are not so hopeful of getting everything through Sydney though after our experience last time.
Goodbye europe. We are about to take off from munnich. Luckily all of our german chocolate has made it through security.
In just a few hours we will be taking the train to Munnich and then this evening we will be flying home to New Zealand. We arrive on Tuesday 10 Oct at 1:50pm if anyone wants to meet us.
Hello,
We have finished our oddest cycle touring trip yet and are back in Sonthofen for the last time. It’s only twelve days before we fly back to New Zealand.
I have posted some photos from our latest trip.
we have left vienna and r traveling by train 2 salzburg, munnich and back 2 sonthofen tonight. All ok but will b good to b home in nz soon.
As I went to buy a souvenir today I noticed that my wallet was no longer in my pocket… Spent a couple of hours in the police station. Hmmm…. oddly familiar. Sadly we had just transfered our entire collection of Euros to my wallet. To avoid excessive ATM fees we will spend the rest of our time in Vienna using the small change we have left and then the key deposits from the youth hostel we are staying at when we check out. Mahh.
We’ve made it to Vienna and are staying in hostel Rueffensteiner.
An interesting little story: We struggled to find the hostel at first so Gina asked a nice young man on a park bench for directions. When she approached him, however, he clutched his bags like she was going to steal them. Sometimes I wish we didn’t look so homeless.
You may have seen it on the news, there have been riots here in Budapest over the last few days. I woke about 1 am last night to the sounds of shouting and sirens outside the youth hostel windows. Three stories below us were perhaps 100 riot police, many police cars and army trucks.
I think it is still safe here during the day but the rioting is meant to get worse over the weekend when other Hungarians from over the country come to Budapest. Luckily, we will be in Vienna.
We have made it safely to Budapest and are staying in a youth hostel. We will be taking the train to Vienna tomorrow.
On a train heading towards budapest minus 1 bike but still ok. Continuing journey by train. Back latest 25th.
Rainy day. Rode into Hungary and then back into Slovakia before heading back into Hungary again at the border crossing into Estergom.
Estergom is a really pretty town. We dumped our stuff at a camp site and then went and had chinese for lunch. We were hoping for a Hungarian restaurant but Chinese came first and we were hungry in Hungary.
We are back in Slovakia. We are riding away from the Tatras and towards another national park.
We are camping near the Danjec river in Slovakia in an area named Cverny Klastor. We are camping here after reading a comment on the Lonely Planet website saying that this is the pearl of Slovakian camping for atmospheric chilled outness. All I can say is well done that man. It’s touristy here but layed back. There’s lots of open space near the river and the national park is right next to us. The red monastry is also here which we have visited. Probably the best tourist attraction so far due to there being very few tourists. It’s got a really nice court yard where people hang out and drink beer on tree logs.
There’s a bridge across the river to more houses and we went over there last night to buy some food from the dairy. The prices were all wrong and out by a factor of ten. Ahaa, it turns out we had stumbled into Poland by mistake. Another fantastic chance to play the border game. The river forms the border between Slovakia and Poland here.
hello from the worlds smallest mountain range. Camping in poland in the tatras and hoping for a bear free night!
We rode out of the Czech Republic in the morning and back into Slovakia with its buildings in need of repair. We rode through hazy/smokey villages until we got to Cadca. We were treated well by the tourist office there which has all sorts of little trinkets. We kept riding back into the country to a museum with a small tourist train. I was keen to take our bikes on the train but Gina was not so we cycled along the rutty road up and down towards the Polish border.
We mushed for a good few hours until we got to a large lake. Unfortunately the camp ground on the lake was closed and there were large locks and chains around the gates. The area looked rough and this made us cautious as we free camped in a forest of furs nearby. Washed in the lake and tried to be silent. No lights after dark. Woke up in the night with heart pounding when I thought I heard a noise.
