Budapest to Szentgyorgypuszta

Today got off to a bit of a rocky start. James' navigation tools did not seem to want to work and he was forced to reboot everything to get things going again. This meant our departure from Budapest was delayed by about an hour. By the time we did finally get on track (and we really needed everything to work today as the navigation was particularly difficult) we were all relieved to be back on our bikes again.

The journey today took us along some dodgy tracks, through a forest, a corn field (that track finished in rows of corn!), roads of varying busyness and finally along potholed country roads past some holiday homes along an anabranch of the Danube. As a consequence, there are very few photos as we really had to concentration on where we were riding rather than the scenery. James' mood didn't help, still reeling from the navigation issues at the start of the day.

We finally arrived at our accommodation at about 3 pm. We seem to be staying in a Hungarian summer house. Not sure that we rate the accommodation side so much but we did enjoy the meal at the associated restaurant, which was excellent. Our hosts gave us a couple of bonus samples of plum palinka. James and Kieran seem to like it alright but Gillian thinks it is 'liquid death'. We are assuming it is home made and we are probably best not knowing how that process was done.

We will be breakfasting late tomorrow at 9 am (our earlier request for a 7.30 am breakfast was meet with disapproval) - hopefully it won't leave us too late arriving at our next destination. It's a long day at 74km (experience suggests adding a few kms to allow for navigation "issues").

Anyway, off to bed now as we have a long ride ahead of us through more of the Hungarian countryside. Hopefully hangovers won't be a factor...

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