Lake Balaton is lovely! It is very quiet and serene where we are staying and reminds me of Lake Garda; I'm sure if we went further around the lake we would find more tourists and bustling places but it suits us just fine here, a good chilling out place to stay and relax. We are spending our time sunbathing and going for short walks around the local village and parks. We found why looks like another traditional market area at the other end of the village near...

What a palaver leaving the hotel this morning! I wrote in my blog yesterday about the inefficiency of the hotel key cards, well this morning they reduced Colin to boiling point! We once again took the stairs for breakfast and struggled to gain entry back into our room: so we were prepared for problems trying to get down to the garage with a pile of bags and this proved correct. Our key card would only let us go down to the Reception so we checked out and also p...

Day 25The ride here yesterday was effortless! It was 2 hours of almost empty motorway, just lovely.We found the hotel but passed it twice as we negotiated the complex one way system!We managed to park behind the hotel eventually next to an underground car park which said it was 500 Hungarian Florins an hour (£1.26) which sounded extortionate, so Colin refused to leave the bike there whilst we checked in but when we had checked in we found that hotel guests could...

Thoughts at the end of our second leg.As we planned our trip we did it in stages as that seemed to make it easier and we said that once we reached Hungary that would be the turning point as we started to come back home.One of the things that has been consistent apart from all the kindness and generosity of every one we have encountered in all 11 countries, have been Storks!We first came across a field of them in Holland and then on all our travelling we have seen...

Day 23 Rain stopped play!Before we left Romania Colin gave away our prizes to the hotel waiters as we had no room or no need for them; he wasn't sure if they understood his explanation of how we came by them but seemed pleased especially with the bottle of Fizz!We had a brilliant ride today, all of the roads were fairly quiet with very few lorries but still having to watch out for mad drivers! Yesterday Colin bought a t-shirt that says BADD - Bikers Against Dumb...