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As the winner of an article-writing competition in the Hungarian Bringa magazine, I could spend 11 days together with the Hungarian MTB squad in a training camp 80 kms from Athens...

Training Camp in the Greek spring (2002)

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2004-02-05 19:15:22

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with long sleeves. Through the day on calm, sunny ascents we bathed in our sweat. Other speciality of the weather was the lack of calm weather; it was nearly almost windy. On two days we had to face strong, stormy winds. It’s true that along the beach the wind is stronger, but on a tour of mine it occurred that on a 1500m high pass the wind almost blew me away. It was hard to make a short film, because the wind pushed so strong my arm and hand. I was happy with my wind stopper jersey.

The quality of the roads is almost as in Hungary (I think not about the roads in Budapest), so not so bad, but at crossing the rails I usually got from my bike and went through the crossing by foot, because the gap next to the rails wasn’t filled so through cycling on it it’s bumpy. The traffic wasn’t a problem anywhere, but in towns it’s worth looking out to the free driving style of Greece (southern born) people. In the mountains it occurred that I hadn’t seen an auto for half an hour. Because I’m used to the Hungarian traffic, at first thesound of horns was strange for me, but after a while I realised (found out, discovered) that I cycle regularly. After some occasions we realised that the cars welcome the cyclists with a horn . On small trafficked roads, on the traffic-tables the names of the villages, towns are shown only in Greek, using Greek letters. On middle trafficked roads you don’t meet with this problem, because on the tables we can read the names, using Latin letters. The inhabitants – if they understood me – helped us with pleasure. Theoretically the shops are open from 8 am to 2 pm and from 17 pm to 20 pm, but in some places I found shops open through the afternoon. Maybe they didn’t close in the afternoon because of the early spring. In the shops we could find everything, like in Hungary; the orange – because it is continuously becoming ripe – is definitely cheap. Nearly every monument-museum – in spring – are ...

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