{"id":1412,"date":"2011-05-25T22:21:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onmytodd.org\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2015-03-01T11:21:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T10:21:40","slug":"kecskemet-szeged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=1412","title":{"rendered":"Kecskem\u00e9t – Szeged"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erika picked us up at J\u00e1nos’s place at 7:30am and we walked over to her work place, a coffee and sweets shop were I had breakfast.<\/p>\n

Left half past 9 – and wasted more than an hour finding a way out of the city. All the roads heading in a southish direction would not permit cyclists! So I was forced to take road No. 44 to the east!<\/p>\n

Attempted a shortcut via a dirt track again but gave up after a couple hundred meters.<\/p>\n

Anyway, to make a long story (read: ride) short: I zigzagged my way around road No. 5 and cycled almost 140km to Szeged instead of the 80 it would have been had cycling been allowed on that road.<\/p>\n

Decided to stay in Szeged for the night and cross into Serbia tomorrow. The border is about 15km from here. The campsites I found were either in the wrong direction (back to were I came from, or closed. I’m now lodging in Hotel Izabella, a simple place on the 2nd floor of a run-down … hm, dunno what it used to be. Looks a bit creepy from the outside.<\/p>\n

Sitting in the city centre. It’s still warmish and there are quite some people out. One stall-like pub has live music, everthing from Cranberries to Lynard Skynard. People dance, erm, in formation, for lack of a better expression. That is, there are about 30 random people on the dancefloor all doing the same moves.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard that girls in Tbilisi, Georgia, are dressed for party 24\/7. Szeged girls definitely try that, too. :)<\/p>\n

Cycled: 137km<\/p>\n