After a ‘rest’ day in magnificent Budapest, we’re heading back upstream today and have another 42 k ride ahead along the Danube from Vac, still in Hungary. The bikes are carried on the upper deck aboard the My Story and all staff not involved in serving breakfast combine to form s human chain and unload over 100 bikes ready to go. There’ll be a briefing about the next leg after breakfast in German and repeated in English before we head off. We’ll pack our lunches on board ready to go in the panniers, along with fruit, water and snack bars. It’ll be chilly first thing in the morning so we layer up with skins, wicking t-shirts, our shirts and jackets, with plenty of pannier space to peel layers later in the day.
Alongside at Vac – that flag shows the wind strength and the bad news is that it’s straight into our faces as we set off.
