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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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We hurried into a café before the rainfalling. We wished a good journey and weather for each other when we said goodbye. While they went on along the Adriatic sea, I planned to sleep in Slovenia, towards Postojna.

10th day: Senozece – Postojna – Ljubljana – Litija – Celje – Atomske teplice = 202 km + 650 m heightdiff.
To arrive next day in time (17 pm.) at the railway station of Nagykanizsa for this day I planned to cycle almost through the whole country of Slovenia: about 200kms. In the area of Postojna I biked on ascents and descents under blue sky and through green fir tree forests. The beauty of the land make me remember to Slovakia, although the quality of the roads wasn’t so good. After Logatec I had to cycle for some kilometer on a road built by concrete-planes. It was so bumpy that I had to push the pedals slower: I was very angry about it! In Ljubljana when I could I was biking on the main roads, althugh there were a lot of cycleroads in the town, but I wanted to hurry. In the city I chose the bikeroads. Ljubljana was a pleasant experience with its city, pedestrianized streets, the nice, friendly streams through the center, with some parks and small bridges in the centre too. I was cycling towards Litija, although the fact, that in the first fewkilometers I could see one or two tables that cycling is forbidden there. I don’t know why, because it was not too trafficked road and it had a very good surface in a nice valley with small mountains, along the river Sava. I had backwind so I left the kilometers behind me with a good speed. Zagorje and Hrastnik were industrial towns, but Lasko – famous about its beer-factory – was a wonderful and friendly one. A lot of houses were decorated and there were a lot of flowers, and desks and chairs in the center; the town were nearly ready for the beer-festival. On the last section between Celje (a nice castle here) and the camping of Atomske Teplice I was riding the bike a little bit tired.

11th day: Atomské Teplice – Rogatec - Lepoglava – Varazdin – Nagykanizsa = 170 km + 450 m heightdifference
Unfortunately for my last day I got cloudy and rainy weather, so after the day when I lost my raincoat this day seemed to be not a good one for me. After leaving the camping I was cycling to the croatian border on a hilly area. In Croatia between Podgora and Lepoglava when it started to rain and then for a half kilometer the road surface was gravel I would be very angry. After then I hurried towards Lepoglava because of the rain. Riding out under the clouds from Varazdin I could cycle on dry roads, but the time I lost because of the rain I had not too much time for having a rest. With a minimum stopping I was biking with 26 km/h towards the railway station of Nagykanizsa. In Hungary I often looked at my watch and counted the kilometers I had yet. I arrived at the station quarter hour before the start of my train. It was enough! I arrived at the finish.

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