Day 34
May Day
2534.81 km
Dunakiltti Hungry
Well an excellent day, Vienna is an excellent city, stunning buildings, but as with all cities when you cycle through them you get to see the good the bad and the just pull it down. Great day to go to Vienna being May Day everything is closed and lots of demonstrations to watch all very peaceful and well policed but with the bands and the chanting of the protesters it was fun.
Rode out of Vienna with a Dutch cyclist Tom, which was good as he was going to stop 18 km short of Bratislava my stop for the day so it was nice to talk. We parted company and he went to look for a hotel I cycled on to Bratislava, after searching for my camp site for 30 minutes, I met up with Tom he had not been able to find a b&b so had cycled on, thought to my self how hard can that been there’s tons of them while I was looking for the one site in Bratislava!
Brought a map and a bottle of water and realised that the Euro was no longer good to go! Looked at the map and realised that the camp site I had missed by several miles, I could see from where I was on the map there was a camp site not to far from where I was perhaps 2 hours ride. So I went for that rather than go backwards.
As I riding along I was looking at the map thinking to myself that the county boundary on the map was very thick, not the boundary being thick that was me! The camp site I was heading for was in Hungry, that pushed me on no end it had been a long day.
Well today the world changed Hungry, the roads just seemed to fall apart, they are in a bad way, the traffic had all but gone when I crossed the boarder at Mosonmagyarovvar, yes that is a place! The boarder had long since closed down and was kind of ghostly with the curtains flapping out of the broken windows.
Went to the first ATM I could fine and got some cash and then headed of to the camp site feeling kind of pleased with myself, Camp site had a bar, hot showers and, cost me 3 Euro for the night, and just a 1 Euro for a beer, four beers later and 123 km I slept well.