We have reached Budapest

Hey guys,

we have finally reached the so called “Pearl of the Danube” – Budapest. The people, who made up this name were right ! It is a great city with beautiful buildings, streets and bridges.

Unfortunately the town is not bicycle-friendly at all, since there are basically only 2 bigger roads in the whole town that have a path for cyclers next to it.

The nice student “Yani”, who we found on WarmShowers.org offered us a place to stay for 2 days. His appartment is really small, but it is close to the center of the town. The sad thing is that he is working a lot so we couldn´t really get to know him the first days.

From now on the name “tricycle” is not really fitting anymore – it should rather be “pentcycle”, because we would like to introduce two new cylcers to our group. Two days ago Jonathan (Auge´s brother) and Michi (a friend of Jonathan) reached Budapest by train and joined our group now. They will go back to Germany together with us from now on.

Our plans for the next days are to cycle into direction Bratislava. We guess we might reach there in about 2 and a half days. So till then stay with us and you will hear from us soon !

Egészségedre

We just experience amazing hospitality!

I think now it’s really time to say THANKs to all those great people, we don’t really know, but which are so wonderfull to us…

We are cycling through Bulgaria and Serbia, crossing villages, but wherever we come to, there is always somebody who helps us.

Some nice examples…

We have been tired…
and they offered us a place to sleep!

We asked for water …
they gave us wine, schnaps, cigarettes, coffe and a lot of cucumbers!

… they gave us serbian-coffe, coke and more schnaps!

We asked for water… they gave us to drink, helped us reparing the broken bike and donate us with a bag of chocolate, cookies and sweet things!

We have been hungry… they cooked great food for us.

We asked for a doctor… they bought us a cream against my paining knee!

We asked for the farry timetable … and they paid our beer and gave us a cheap private ship over!

To all of you: THANK YOU very much, we so apperciate your help! May god bless you!

Belgrad – Here we are!

It took us maybe 4 days to get from Vidin to Belgrad. Here we have some random pics that describe the tour. Enjoy!

die Donau

we had to go to the other side of the river by ferry that left at 7:00 pm. but – we came too late … 10 minutes maybe. desperately we went into a pub and we got to know a guy who was willing to ship us over the danube for less than the normal ferry price. Serbia is great!

the next morning – on the other side of the river …

in Belgrad

We stayed in Belgrad for 2 nights – tomorrow we wanna go to Novi Sad and after that we plan to cycle to Budapest so that we are there at the 11th.

From Thessaloniki to Vidin – The (amateur)Video

Finally: the Danub

Servus,

Wir hams Geschafft! wir sind an der Donau.Seit Sofia hatten wir keine richtige Internetverbindung mehr, deshalb hoertet ihr nichts mehr von uns.

Im grossen ganzen gehts uns auch abartig gut hier im Osten. Es grenzt  an Wahnsinn wie gastfreundlich die Menschen sind: In Doktor Yusifovo, einem kleinen Ort irgendwo zwischen Montana und Vidin war unser naechtlicher Aufenthalt die Attraktion. Auf einmal warn sie alle da,.die bulgarischen Zigeuner und Deutschbulgaren, machten uns Kaffee, tranken mit uns selbstgemachten Schnaps und Wein, schenkten uns 10 Gurken und urploetzlich warn sie alle wieder weg.

Weil die Zeit knapp is, schreib ich den Rest nur in Stichwoerter.

Knie kaputt, Achter, Schlechtes Hostel in Vidin, Ueble Berge, Schnaps, Gurken, Schnaps, Richtig gutes essen, billig, Deutsche ueberall, how i met your mother.

So, mehr von uns and also the english version gibts dann in drei tagen, wenn wir hoffentlich in belgrad sind

 

Day 5: Blagoewgrad to Sofia

JungeJunge, was für ein Tag. Ich bin zu faul um zu schreiben. Ihr müsst euch mit Bildern zufrieden geben

Man, what a day. Because I’m to lazy to write you have to be satisfied with some pics

müslibreakfast:

 

 

 run away from the weather…

 - Mission Impossible!

 

 

 :)

Around 2:30 pm we could go on and after 3 hours we came to Sofia.

Good night!

 

Day3: Serres – Kresna

After a short night we started the new day with a great “nutella”-breakfast.
On this morning Augustin and Jan both put on their bikepants for the first time and it made them feel like little kids again that do not need to go to the toilet yet
But even though we all felt our asses.
We cycled 98 km on that day – over the Bulgarian border up to a village called Kresna.
“Take care in Bulgaria – the people are bad and they steal” is what the Greeks told us about their neighbors.
So we were somehow careful and placed our tent outside the village next to a river.
The highlight of the day was again the food we made for dinner – nudels with sausages paprika and of course onions
In the night a dark figure with a scyth(“Sense”) in its right hand passed the way behind our tent but we were to tired to give him attention.