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    Would appear to be Hungary... Inscription say something like Forgiveness. Do not you go down to the day of wrath. Its very distictive and a lo vely street
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    Yes, I could just see myself sitting at what looks like a quaint little cafe/restaurant, on the right (with the canopy), sipping an ice-cold beer!

    I'm sure that Werner will be along soon to confirm.

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    Hi Marco,

    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    First of all, nice to see you back and that you're keeping well. Your contributions to the forum have always been fantastic, whether when discussing hi-fi, music, computers or aspects of your life.
    thank you very much for your kind words and the warm ”welcome back“!

    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Too many folks on Internet forums like to 'hide', be anonymous entities, and show nothing of their true selves, which is a mentality I simply can't relate to.
    Me too, this is a kind of mentality I cannot relate to and the main reason for me to always use my real and full name, ever since I started to communicate via “Bulletin Board Systems” (BBS), as these forums were called back in 1987 when I discovered computer based communication.

    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Anyway, just to get this right, are you saying you cycled all that distance?
    Actually it was even a bit more. My journey started in the last week of April, and my bike computer tells me that I cycled 672.94 miles (or 1,083 kilometres) during May, until I returned to my home here in Tyrol. But it was not troublesome at all, since riding a bicycle seems to be my second nature. I’ve been cycling in the metropole of Vienna since the age of eight years, so far without any serious accident (knock on wood). As a 22 years young man, back in 1978, I returned to Vienna after living for six months in the city of Bremen, northern Germany. The distance was 746 miles (approx. 1,200 kilometres), I think it took eight or ten days. Nowadays, with my 60th birthday coming up, I have been using a Pedelec for my most recent journey, which certainly won’t be my last.

    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    I also love the big, wide-open spaces and empty roads, devoid of traffic congestion... You can 'breathe' and genuinely feel that you're alive there, unlike in some parts of the UK!
    I too love these big, wide-open spaces; they are very different from the narrow valleys and the big, sometimes menacing mountains here in Tyrol. Both my father and my mother were born and grew up in flat, wide-open landscapes, and as a child and young dude I spent most of my holidays in areas like these.

    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    The picture of the old lady (was that your mum?) […]
    No, that’s “Gretl-Tant” (“aunt Gretie”, although she was never my aunt), the widow of one of my father’s cousins, living in the neighboring village of my father’s home, a branch of relatives from the side of my father’s mother.

    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    I was wondering where this was, as it looks right up my street:
    That’s the centre of Köszeg (German: Güns), one of Hungary’s most beautiful cities, very close to the Austrian border and once (back in the “Habsburger” days) part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire:





    I’m grateful for receiving that kind of warm welcome from you and the other AoS members, Marco!

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    Marco,

    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Yes, I could just see myself sitting at what looks like a quaint little cafe/restaurant, on the right (with the canopy), sipping an ice-cold beer!


    that was exactly what I had with my vegetarian pizza.



    “Kávéház” means “Kaffeehaus” (German, it even sounds similar) and “coffeehouse” (English). “Etterem” means “entrance”. A part of my father’s family is from Hungary. As a young man, my father’s nickname was “Piszta”, which is shorthand for “Istvan”, the Hungarian variant of “Stephan”.

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    I take my hat off to you for doing something like this.
    It seems you were able to travel relatively light? Did you get xperi nice any issues charging up the battery for the bike, as it can't be easy cycling on one of those with no battery power available?
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    Kevin,

    Quote Originally Posted by CageyH View Post
    I take my hat off to you for doing something like this.
    thank you, but believe me, most of the time it was not really overly demanding or exhausting. I’m nearly 60 years old, 6' 6" tall, my weight is 194 US pounds, I’m not strong, but persisent, and my average travel speed was not really fast, around 15.5 mph (25 km/h) with a completely packed bicycle, sometimes going uphill or against headwind.

    Quote Originally Posted by CageyH View Post
    It seems you were able to travel relatively light?


    I used two pannier bags and a backpack. My luggage included even a teapot, a teacup, two cans with Darjeeling and Ceylon tea, my favourite book, my iPad with a detachable keyboard and a mobile LTE router/WLAN hotspot. However, for future trips I plan to purchase bigger pannier bags, because my back muscles are occupied with supporting my lungs for breathing, so I don’t like to wear a backpack for more than a few hours per day. I suffer from COPD, an emphysema with only 60 percent of the lung capacity.

    Quote Originally Posted by CageyH View Post
    Did you get xperi nice any issues charging up the battery for the bike, as it can't be easy cycling on one of those with no battery power available?
    You have to carefully plan the daily route and to be prepared for unexpected circumstances like strong headwind or steep rises, which of course cause more power consumption, but usually everything went really fine and effortlessly. Only one time, after some 37.3 miles (60 kilometres) through hilly terrain, the battery capacity was done sooner as expected, but I had to take a lunch break anyway, and the restaurant owner allowed my to recharge the battery in the meantime.

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    Köszeg looks very nice, reminds me of my home town in Rotherham


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    Lovely pictures and a great story, thanks very much for sharing them with us.

    Back when I was a lad, my father took me and my brother to look at the house in Liverpool we lived in when I was tiny, and before my brother was born. Not only had the house been demolished, the street itself had disappeared! So much for that trip down memory lane!

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    My uncle did a bit of cycle tourism.
    This is him on one of his rides - hence the "travelling light" comment.



    A top bag on the back would remove the need for a backpack.
    The handlebar bag is also useful for the important stuff,mas it is quick to remove.
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    Joe,

    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    Lovely pictures and a great story, thanks very much for sharing them with us.
    you’re welcome, and thank you so much for looking at my pictures and listening to my story. However, a very interesting and touching part of my story happened when Nouras, a refugee from Syria, invited me on a drink because I didn’t have the matching coins for the vending machine while waiting for our train to arrive.



    He told me about the used car business he owned in Damascus, the four years he spent studying English literature and a whole lot of other things no one would believe …
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