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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...

From the snowy mountains to the sandy beach (2000)

Gyorgyigabor
2004-02-05 19:55:23

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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 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, ...