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Györgyi Gábor: From the snowy mountains to the sandy beach (2000)
After getting experiences on five cycletours in Slovakia and two in Austria and Slovenia in july 2000 I was ready to bike on my most serious tour in my life: to push the pedals from my favourite area, the Dolomites - which is said to be one of the world’s most beaufiful mountain-ranges – reaching the Adriatic sea to Nagykanizsa, a hungarian town next to the border. As in last year this year I also travelled to Cavalese, the place of our holiday with my parents, from where I set out the 1400km long – with a 3 day long detour – homeway after a week long training, warming up and programs together with my parents. In every case I wanted to visit the wonderful Lake Garda – which I only heard about – and Venice that I liked from the videos, but where I also hadn’t been before. During the week I spent in the Dolomites with my parents I made three beautiful cycletours and managed to cycle through some passes.

Biketour from the Dolomites to Hungary

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2004-09-13 12:38:20

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I travelled to Venice by bus and then by a ship. Because the clouds flew away I had a clear weather again (like at the Lake Garda; I had fortune again.) After landing (from the ship) at first I didn’t know where to go. I could hardly believe that I arrived at Venice with my own energy. I enjoyed the atmosphere of the town very much; I liked it more than the beauty of the buildings. I took pleasure in the vaporettos on the channel, the lot of tourists, the musicians, the pigeons. I sailed around the famous town by a vaporetto, I admired the houses, palaces of Canale Grande, then I stepped a lot in the thin streets and at the shore of the channels. In the afternoon I had rest with hearing the music of a jazz music group on a small square.

9th day: Cavallino – Latisana – Monfalcoe – Trieszt – Senozece = 171 km + 875 m heightdifference
After I left the Alps, the Lake Garda and Venice, when I was cycling on a flat and monotonious area I felt more and more homesickness. After Latisana I caught a pair of french cyclists also with packs. For a time they were cycling with my pace behind me, then we started to speak with each other in English. I felt proud because of the fact that I was cycling from the Dolomites towards my home throught a litte bit cycling in Switzerland, then I asked them: „-Where do you cycle from, what is the destination ?” The french pair was on the tour of their lives: with bicycle from Paris through a few passes of the Alps, along the Adria to Greece. I envied them. I hoped that we could say goodbye to the dark clouds that were going after us, but we turned to the south in vain, we couldn’t left them. The clouds went with us to Triest. We rolled down into the town from a mountain ridge, so from there up we could admire the wide sea, and the town and the unbelievable picture how the dark cloud changed to the sky or white clouds. I think I hadn’t seen such wide and dark cloud(s) before. We hurried ...