Budapest to Cluj-Napoka Into Romania, immediately a noticeable difference, the driving is a little worse but the infrastructure is much worse. First horse and carts roads are potholed and the vehicles on them are largely unmaintained. Having said that the people are friendly again and the beer is great and it's relatively cheap. The sat nav street mapping is beginning to fail this is right at the edge of the detailed street mapping in Garmin so for the first tim...

Rest Day in Budapest I like this place, great beer, gorgeous girls, and even some history. Took a tourist bus around the city great way to see it. Our "tour guide" Kevin sorted out a group discount on the bus of about 30% he corralled everyone else in the street so an anonymous American couple benefited as well. Trip took us down to Hero Square which commerates the 7 main tribes who originally populated this area. Behind it we found a park that some ty...

Terchova to Budapest Dry but boring ride to Budapest. Weather great first hot day, sweltered in a car park waiting for the truck to stop.

Olomouc to Terchova (Slovakia) First time in the new Slovakia. Dry fun ride through some great scenery ended up in a ski hotel out of season, not a bad spot the views were terrific. Watched some baby wild boar come out of the woods to feed, this place is still heavily wooded must be all sorts of things in there. We're now in the land of male testosterone where men are men and women are glad of it ... can only get grunts out of the locals.

Prague to Olomout Interesting ride local drivers are atrocious it's normal to have both overtakes and undertakes but the worst is the making three lanes out of two. It works something like this both lanes stick as far right as they can, usually on the rough, and the fast drivers fight it out for the space between these two virtual lanes. You get to choose do you ride in the rough at the side of the road or do you join the fight for the middle lane. Needless to s...