Breakfast finished, we headed off along the first part of today's route. Not sure calling the cycle path 'a goat track' is really descriptive enough - it was just slightly shorter grass than the grass around it for the most part. For the first 11 km or so our top speed was 17 km/hr but most of our trip was down around the 10 km/hr mark. Gillian was most relieved to see the newly paved cycle path when we finally got to that. As were James and Kieran, but we now know not to get too excited because the next surface might not last long or might be worst than the last.
Though the going was slow this morning, we did see a large collection of birds of prey, but unfortunately(fortunately?) didn't get close enough to identify them. The country side was also magnificent and we have to pinch ourselves sometimes to remember that we are in Hungary.
After a rather too long break for lunch, too boring to recount, we traveled mostly on country back roads at a respectable speed (not quite Tour de France style but good for us) and arrived in the very pretty town of Kalocsa. Unfortunately we didn't have time to do the tour of the Paprika Museum but we did pass a small brilliantly coloured field on the way into Kalocsa filled with paprika plants. We did the usual washing of knicks and showering before heading out for a long leisurely dinner in town. We even splashed out and had dessert as we all agreed we had earned it today.
Another big day tomorrow...
Relive 'Danube day 25'
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