19th day Rimavska sobota to Nagymaros

Distance: 146km
Total: 2094km

It was warm wake up with the sun heating up the tent slowly in the morning. As my alarm rang also the music started from the nearby pool. Didn't see anyone interested in my camping in the morning, so just left the campsite.

It was becoming a warm over +25°C day right from the morning. Ate some breakfast on roadside restaurant - had to order from German menu and bananas chicken with rice appeared soon in front of me. Some 20km on busy road 50 didn't really taste much good. After Lunesec though it was small and nice road for next 30km - around Hungarian border there was no soul for about 5km, just some abandoned border buildings. Roads became worse and buildings better on Hungarian side.

Hungarian florint has healthy 293:1 exchange rate towards euro, and withdrawing 5000 florint bill seemed like a lot money - they ending up to euro soon though. There was a lot Romani people in southern Slovakia, but they pretty much disappeared on Hungarian side. It was easy ride to Balassagyarmat, where I made a mistake - I went to a pizzeria where you're not supposed to go when you're hungry, but when you know you will be hungry in near future - it took over hour for pizza to arrive.

Rest of the way to Danube was on very busy road with steep up- and downhills, a lot sweat in that temperature, drank like in Lithuania again. Finally descended to the Danube and found eurovelo 6 route, which doesn't seem too fast to cycle on, but good 20km/h is achievable and don't need to worry about cars. Route has a lot turns, so backtracking at times is very likely. Also there's a lot dirt on the route and pretty unpleasant smell from earlier flood (early summer central Europe flooding).

Found campsite next to Danube and unfortunately dirt and smell apply on it as well. This is very likely southwest night on this cycling trip. Heading to upstream tomorrow.