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Maybe my best and most beautiful slovakian biketour was finished in the last day before arriving at Budapest in 1998 because of a fault in manufacture in the tyre.

Crossing the Carpathians by bike 1999

Gyorgyigabor
2004-02-05 19:58:20

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the phonebox in the street, a nice park around the wooden church, and an old woman was washing clothes in the water of the trench around the park. Walking to the entrance of the church I saw photos about the Pope-visit there. Backwards, to Nowy Targ I was cycling at a good pace, but before the town one of my tourmates stopped me with a surprise: „-Have you seen Sanyi?” The guy went in front of the others and not only left them too much, but committed that failure that didn’t stopped at the first main crossing. A main rule is if one goes faster than the others, he should wait for them at the first main crossing. He was lost. We were waiting for him about an hour, but we did it in vain. We cycled towards Rabka with various feelings. We said goodbye to the day from a middle panoramic long climb: there was a beautiful view back to the High Tatra. We set up our tents next to a petrol station after we reported the loss of Sanyi by phone.

8th day, Rabka - Krakkow : We continued our tour towards Krakkow with only six of us. After we couldn’t find a secondary road In Myslenice we were pushing the pedals on a busy main road which didn’t have any shoulder. Because the lorries and trucks went a few centimeters beside us, we felt a little bit fear. We had to bicycle carefully. At the town we wanted to continue cycling on an other road, but as the road bacame wider (2 times 2 lanes) we decided not to turn off. After three – four little hill we get the first view to Krakkow from the top of a hill. At the table with the arms of the town on it we took photos about the half-naked group (photo). We succeeded in crossing the Carpathians: from the bank of the river Danube or Tisza to climb up to the passes with the height above 1100m, and then to go down to Krakko at the height of about 200m. We were just cycling on a main road towards the center, when we accidentaly met with Sanyi, who „lost himself” last day. He had fortune, bacause our plan was ...