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21st May
21st MayPecs to BudapestArrival in Budapest, 50251kmWe left Pecs around 11am having settled up the bill at the campsite (3600Huf - about 14e). The road all the way to Budapest is Highway 6, and for the...
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23rd May
22nd and 23rd MayBudapest.Well, so much for best laid plans. The weather was really too hot yestarday and today early on to be comfortable to walk around sightseeing in. Yesterday we lazed around the...
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25th May
25th MayBudapest to Bratislava, SlovakiaWe left Budapest in the searing heat, hitting a Tesco for groceries and then the slow crawl through the city centre to get out on the open road and highway 10....
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Ok, so this is just a wee short entry while I'm in the net cafe on a few bits and pieces. The last week's worth of proper entries are on my USB stick and I forgot to bring it with me. At the moment,...
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26th MayBratislavaMileage 50500km.2nd day in Bratislava and once again red hot weather. We headed down to the lake in the afternoon and joined the throng of locals in swimming to cool off. Later, we...
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28th to 30th May
28th, 29th, 30th May.PragueArrival 51000I've been meaning to write up this blog entry for days, but never seemed to have the time.We initially stopped over in Brno after driving from Bratislava,...
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31st May / 1st June
31st May and 1st JunePrague to Wroclaw, Poland.Arrival 51300kmAn uneventful journey, although for the main part not on great roads. There is a motorway, but a 'vignette' is needed. Arriving in the city...
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2nd June - 1st entry
2nd JuneWroclaw to Krakow via Oswiecim.Arrival 51683km.I packed up reasonably early after a good night's sleep and headed for the A4 motorway towards Krakow. Stopping off on the way at the town of...
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2nd JuneKrakowI bought bus tickets from reception and rode the bus into the city. I had to walk the last bit; about 10 minutes. The city was jumping with peeple and when I got to the main square, I...
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3rd June
3rd JuneKrakow continued.....I headed back in to the city by bus after I'd got the washing done. I got off at a different bus stop this time and came in to the old town from a different direction and...
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5th June
4th and 5th JuneKrakow to Warsaw.Well, a miserable start to the day weather wise. It rained all night and continued on for the most part of the long 300km journey, on not a great road to Warsaw....
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6th June
6th JuneWarsaw to PoznanArrival 52347km.Just realised that it's been 10000km since I started out on this trip!The journey from Warsaw wasn't all that great. The traffic in the city was really busy;...
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10th June
8th, 9th and 10th JuneBerlin, Germany.Arrival 52664kmThe journey from Poznan was ok, but the quality of the roads wasn't all that great. The border crossing at swiecko was a strange one. The road on...
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11th JuneBerlin to Braunschweig, Hannover and finally Coppenbrugge....Arrival 53064kmAutobahn all the way to the city of Braunshweig, which was supposed to be the day's stop off point. I had absolutely...
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12th JuneCoppenbrugge to HamburgArrival 53274kmI headed off early from Coppenbrugge and predicted an arrival in Hamburg around midday, hoping to give myself a decent chance of finding the Stellplatz...
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13th June
Hamburg continued....When I got up from my slumber and poked my nose outside the door, I could see that the weather wasn´t going to be as nice as yesterday. It wasn´t cold, but overcast and the threat...
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Cologne, Düsseldorf.
Aaargh! I had made written notes and forgot to bring them with me to the net cafe, so this will need to be done from memory!From Hamburg, I made the journey to Osnabrück as a stopping off point on the...
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Bonn
Not the most interesting of cities. A nice old part of the town, but all else is a bit bland......
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22nd June
22nd JuneBonn to Amsterdam, Netherlands.Arrival 54223kmAn uneventful journey by motorway the whole way, over the border with not even a checkpoint to go through, and finally reaching Amsterdam at...
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25th June - part 1
EdamI left Amsterdam on the Monday morning and decided to head to the little town of Edam, north of the city about 30km. I'd been to Edam and it's very close neighbour, Volendam, before so I knew what...
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25th June
RotterdamWell the rain has finally let up (mostly) and i headed in to Rotterdam centre this morning on the bus. They're in the middle of building a new station or something and all the roads are dug up...
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26th June
Rotterdam- Day 2I cycled into the centre and locked the bike to a railing. When I returned, the bike had vanished and all that was left was the broken lock lying on the ground. The thieves had tried to...
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27th June
Antwerp, Belgium.I finally found the campsite. The GPS co-ordinates were a bit off; well about 2km off really, but I punched in the address and found it that way, and when I got there, I think I'd...
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28th June
Calais.Arrival 54800 km.Approaching Calais, I made attempts to get into a huge 'Carrefour' hypermarket in order to get fuel, booze and fags. There were 2 metre height barriers at every entrance to the...
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Well, I thought I might write a wee update on 'normal' life now that I've been back in Ireland for a few weeks.I arrived back late on the Friday evening after travelling up from Rosslare and greeted...
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