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At 4 am on 26th july 1997 the most people had already been sleeping. Two boys from Szolnok ...
An adventurous bicycletour to the Tatra (1997)
Gyorgyigabor2004-02-05 20:06:24
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also sweated under our jerseys. First we stopped for a hot tea in Tatranska Kotlina, then on the top of the climb through Zdiar. When I looked back I could see grey clouds everywhere. Although the temperature and the rain was cold for our hands, we were still cheerful, we could still laugh. I preferred the ascents to the descents because on the climbs I wasn’t cold. The weather was dark and grey; at the height of 1000m we met with clouds. After crossing the polish border the rain stopped, there was only fog. We didn’t want to be cold, so we chose to set up our tents between the fir trees. The grass and the trees were wet, water was dropping from the branches. We needed some time to be able to make fire. The branches could just get warm and burn well, we could just finish our lunch when it started to rain again. We covered our packs, tents and bikes with nylon (polietilen) fast, then we slipped into our tent ansd sleeping-bags.
In the morning we could wait for the end of the rain for a few hours, but when there was a little water inside the tent we decided to pack and go. In the 10-12 degree cold weather we packed up in half an hour. In the evening we decided to roll down to the 15 km far situated Zakopane, the „capital” of the polish Tatra. This time I wasn’t interested in the shop-windows or the products of the sellers in the busy promenade; we liked to go and have lunch in the warm pizzeria. We found an appartment not too far from the center. We had just finished to slip out from our wet clothes, when the owner lady came to us and gave us hot tea. It was a nice surprise. We were tired so we needn’t too much time to fall asleep. A light sunshine made us wake up. We wanted to forgot the cloudy and rainy mountains of the Tatra, so we left the town in short time. During cycling towards the slovakian border (westwards from the Tatra) we were rolling through friendly villages. In Chocholow I enjoyed to see so many nice wooden house. It was
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