Day 25: Budapest
At night Budapest is really the most beautiful city I've been to.
Finally I made it to what my legs felt to be the last stop. However, due to circumstances, it appears I will have to buckle up for a few hundred more kilometres.
My plan was to take the train to Bucharest and call it quits with just 900Km to go, after some painful 2000. Unfortunately, Saint Christopher – or Hermes – wasn't on my side on this one and none of the trains going to Bucharest are having any means to carry a bicycle on. So, here I am now, struggling between trying the Romanian way of doing things by bribing the conductor, or just man up and ride the rest of the way.
In order to clarify this situation, today I will have two main things to do: go to the Budapest-Kelenfold train station, there's a slight chance there's a train to Romania that can carry bicycles, or find a road map to plan the route to Arad. In the case of the later please wish me luck that my brakes or my legs don't fail me again.
To talk a bit about the road from Bratislava to Budapest, well it was again one of those roads that was longer than planned. I was under the impression that from Esztergom to Budapest there's less than 40Km and I was confident I can come dirrectly from Gyor. It wasn't the case, again the trail was winding so much along the Danube that the distances increased at least once and a half to the N11-N111.
Maybe I over did things but both nights I stopped, plus last night here in Budapest, I was extremely tired. My legs are in a constant state of discomfort and apparently the rest periods need to be more and more closer together and longer in order to be able to continue. This permanent state of tiredness is the main reason I want to stop. Of course, there's the boredom too. From here on end there won't be anything exciting to see, the route will mainly consist of national roads with lots of traffic and most of the times, bad asphalt.
Anyway this plays, please wish me luck, I'll need it.
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