Hungary: northwest to Slovakia

The Hungarian version of a BBQ is goulash over a fire. All campsites and most parks have fireplaces for goulash making but even when they don't people can be found cooking goulash in the most unexpected places in pots suspended by a tripod.

Goulash for lunch

After Budapest we followed the Danube cycle route upstream, detouring from the route to visit Győr. We were now entering a serious heatwave. The temperature rose over 35 degrees for the next six days in a row. The cycling conditions were terrible between about 1 and 4pm. In Győr we followed strains of latin music to find an excellent band from Cuba performing in the central square accompanied by sweat-drenched local salseros. Unfortunately we had the wrong shoes on for dancing...

Cuban band in Győr

Back on the Danube and the heat persisted, and we fought off dehydration and heat rash the best we could to the Slovakian border.