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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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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.

Aggregated data and practical informations:
- During 3 + 11 days 1948 km + 18169 m heightdifference

- Costs (for 11 days with the costs of the bicycle marathon): ca. 80000 HUF

The prices of the campings where I spent nights was between 20000 and 30000 Lire (Cavallino). In some places in Italy there were cycleroads next to te main road; and there were good bicycleroads for example in Vicenza, Padova. On the Cavallino peninsula (Jesolo, etc.) the prices of the campings are - I think - about one and a half times higher of the campings in Leifers or at the Lake Garda