Gyor to Kormarno

June 13 2023

On the road shortly after 8:00 am again this morning even though we had only 53 kms to ride.  We are also heading back to Slovakia again today.  

My Garmin route was totally different from Bob's route down Euro Velo 6 (EV6), so I just turned the routing function off as it is so annoying having Garmin beeping at you all the time. We were down some very nice bike paths until they suddenly ended and the route turned into a tractor path along side a field.  My big 40 mm tires made it rideable but it was more mountain bike trail than cycle path.  The route got worse and worse and finally we were pushing the bikes between one mud hole and the next.  If it had of been raining it would have been totally impassable. 

After what seemed like forever but was probably only a few kms we came to an unbelievable smooth section of brand new pavement. What the heck was this doing here in the middle of nowhere?  Not to complain we were off down the road. 

A second section of push your bikes down a logging road appeared only a few more kms down the way..

Some where in this Bob broke another spoke.  This is the fourth spoke he has broken on this trip. I had originally put this down to too much weight on the bike, however bob got the specs from his bike shop and he is probably 40 kg under the rated wheel capacity.  This also reminds me that I got a flat yesterday. My big tires swallowed a one in nail.  It wasn't hard to find sticking through the tire.  The fact that I got a flat wasn't caused by the fact that I ran over a nail but was caused by Ken's negative waves.  Just as I hit the nail Ken was thinking there hasn't been a single flat on the trip and five bikes have travelled 1500 kms. 

The high light of the day was when we stopped for lunch at this 1850-1860 fort  along the river.  It was called Monostori Erod.  It was built into the river bank to guard river traffic.

The highlight of this evening was tonight's meal.  It was without question the best meal of the entire tour.  I hard the breaded pork tenderloin. It was a chef's master piece served with mashed potatoes with spinachm adorned with strips of bacon. roasted mushrooms ,and sprouts.  The desert was a huge slice of chocolate tort for desert was more like a soft chocolate bar.  

Just two more ride days left hard to believe.  

Sorry For the lack of pictures especially tonight's meal 

Terry