Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Day 180 Oct 06 Sat - Thorns Camp in Kistelek to Dog Barking Camp 40km to Budapest

With a group of leisure cyclists in Kiskunfelegyhaza ( try pronounce it)
Tesco hypermarket , quite popular here
Horse carts with tourists and a police car escort at the back
Discovered that a camping ground just about 200m away the next morning

Way to the camp
Dog barking camp
Guess who they are...to know the answer ,read on....

Not all cycling lanes are bad , some very nice too...

Today's Distance: 101 km
Today's Temp: 14 - 23c
Average Speed: 17.4 max: 36.5
Time on Bike: 5 hr 47 min
Average climb: 2% max: 5%
Trip Altitude: 99 m max: 205 m
Today's spending: 0
Total Distance to date: 11857 km
Total spending to date:6048 Ft

Budapest , not yet .. has to wait for another day! The earlier plan was overruled as I didn't want to reach a big city late at 6 or 7 pm to hunt for accommodation . I had experience the hardship of that. I rather prefer in the morning or noon.So I had to slow down as not to camp early.Started at 8.30 am on a very cold misty morning,not many cars or people yet on this outskirt Rd 5,the road was still wet from yesterday's dizzying rain, straight flat and even road surface,the missing one was a road shoulder.Saw 2 horse carts with tourists sitting and a police car escorting from the back . No great scenery here,maybe the joy was on the horse cart ride. Highlight for today, I was flagged down by 3 prostitutes sitting at the opposite side of the road when I thought were ordinary Hungarian SYTs , but their heavily make-up faces and the intercourse hand sign they made,confirmed my thought. No thanks even for free !!! Did not spend a single cent today as yesterday already spent much,things here are rather expensive,even a 1.5 litre of mineral water cost 200 Ft , so most of the time I filled up tap water from the petrol stations. Campsite no more thorns but a barking dog , a real nuisance kept barking from a house compound about 50 m away.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi meng,
Looks like the weather changing fast. What's your plan now. Approx. date to Paris ?

take care

Thighland Meng said...

Terrence, my next desination is Slovakia,Wein,Salberg, Lucern,paris . hopefully by Mid or end Nov to be in London. Can you pls help me to find out any cheap air ticket from London to Malaysia around this time.