Gyor
Today we awoke to rain. Down at breakfast at the Tennis Club Hotel we got more depressed as the rain plastered the tennis courts outside the window. Craig came in at 7:30 with plans for the day - good news for us. The campers would be riding in to the hotel at 9 (he said), we would have our meeting and then take off.
I remembered out at Suters' farm where we worked after high school, Gene used to say the old wife’s tale " rain before 7 stops by 11". Well, it worked today. The campers showed up after 10, we had time to write down the instructions, and the rain stopped about 11. Unfortunately, as soon as we started to ride at 11:15 it started again.
It rained steadily as we rolled out of town on the main street we entered on little traffic on a Sunday. Some of us were probably a little envious of Joy who took the ride with Craig option. The rain finally stopped just before lunch with only a tiny bit of sun visible. It was warm though.
The Danube, now called the Donaj, sometimes looks like a big lake with small islands in it. As we moved east for the day it became more like a river again.
After the city the scenery was national park land again for awhile. We saw herons in the waterways along the side of the levee away from the river, a large group of swans and a deer. Later it became farmland again with sunflower fields (not looking very sunny in this weather, corn fields and other crops.
Immediately after we crossed the Donaj we crossed the border into Hungary. We finally got our passports stamped there for the first time this trip.
Tonight, except for the voracious mosquitoes and the bar TV (the other end, the camp is pretty quiet. Most of our group went into Gyor to check out the health spa.
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Posted August 29, 2005 by Tour Participant
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