Bratislava to Budapest by bike - (part 4 - Esztergom to Budapest)

So the rains arrived and stayed all day but undaunted, and possibly still fast asleep, we set off to cycle the remaining 75kms to Budapest - not the wisest decision as within 2 mins we were all drenched and the April showers showed no signs of letting up.

Unfortunately, the cycle path along the road appears and re-appears so the merry foursome had to cycle along the road which, thankfully due to it being a national holiday, was not too busy.

As the sight of Visegrad castle hove into view, appearing and disappearing behind the low lying cloud that served to make it further and further away, we stopped for a coffee and someone made the observationt hat we had seen no other cyclist despite covering 30kms - now call me a cynic but there were probably 3 or 4 reasons for that

1) It was a national holiday
2) The  road is not ideal for cycling along
3) It was monsoon style rain
4) The rain was not due to stop all day

Having boosted morale with caffeine and chocolate, we proceeded to push on to Szentendre - again on a mixture of roads and cycle paths and through a cloud where we stopped for lunch - a lunch that then extended as we took an executive decision in unison that the HEV back to Budapest was the most sensible option - agreement reached, Steven and I ordered another beer pleased that the gilrs had made a decision that we wanted to make but didn't want to appear as a pair of wooses!

Finally made it back to the flat at about 5.30  in the evening having cycled back along the riverbank in the smallest hint of sunshine.

All told, we cycled 255kms in 3 days (and 20kms on the HEV) - not a bad achievement considering that we had no experience of cycling long distance in the past, but I am not sure that we will be in a rush to repeat it, although apparently the route round Lake Balaton is supposed to be very good and with some vineyards along the way, it might be somewhere to check out (although this idea has not been checked with Katy yet).