The last week of cycling across Europe started in Romania. Leaving Timisoara was as scary as cycling in the city and I couldn’t have left Romania without another dog attack, haha.
As soon as I crossed the border to Hungary I felt relieved to escape the crazy drivers and dog attacks. It is weird, it is just a border, a small piece of land, but lots can change by crossing it.
Every day during this week I felt weird.
It felt good to cycle through Hungary, Austria and Slovakia again, see the the same familiar EV6 route and the same places I passed 150 days ago when I was starting my bike tour across Europe. I also felt like I wanted to stop there, or turn back, not go to the old life I had.
This is the hardest thing for me: going back to a “normal” life after feeling absolute freedom for 5 months.
What was supposed to be an easy cycling week, it turned out to be quite challenging, both physically and mentally. If you want to find out why, join me in this adventure, join me for the last stretch of a bikepacking trip I will never forget.
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00:00 In this episode…
01:46 Leaving Timisoara
02:46 Leaving Romania
04:38 Back in Hungary
08:24 Hello Danube
12:30 Fullspeed to Budapest
13:36 Cycling Budapest to Komarno
15:32 A bumpy ride till Bratislava
19:12 Last day of this bike tour
21:09 A bike odyssey across Europe
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17 Comments
Do you have a Strava map of your trip?
I would avoid those busy roads as much as possible. There were several near misses on your ride. On komoot, these are marked as yellow/orange. If it's like 100meter, then to be honest, it's not that big of a deal, but anything more I really try to avoid. In my country, the Netherlands, a cyclist is not even allowed to cycle there. But yes, the Netherlands seems to be the exception. If you have a gravel-bike chosing unpaved roads, or roads which take longer, more touristy are more relaxed. On the other hand, … the distance then also increases A LOT. It's not easy, I know.
Thank you!
Can not believe the bike odyssey accross Europe has come to an end🚵🚴♀ – Thank you for joining me on this amazing adventure! If you are curious about my next adventure checkout my project https://peaksof.eu and I hope you will be as excited as me for this new challenge 🧗♀
Thanks for the great video came from Reddit
Thanks for the journey. 🙂
Good to see you made it 🙂
And that you have future goals
But remember, it is dangerous to go alone.
Enjoy the next chapter of your life 👍
That was an amazing trip. Thank you for taking us with you. I wish you happiness as you continue your adventures.
Thanks for the great video, was an amazing trip ! Congratulations ! 🚴
3:50 Banat had ethnic German population, many of those villages between Timisoara /Temeschwar/ and present Hungarian border had ethnic German majority back when this area belonged to Austria-Hungary
Congratulations ! Thank you for taking us with you.
Another excellent video. Good luck in the next chapter of your life. Thanks for taking us with you on your adventure.
Hey Georg,
I have watched the whole series in about 2 weeks. I found it really inspiring.
I especially loved the episodes from croatia, montenegro, albania and greece, i just love the scenery there! Thank you for the beautiful videos!
I would love to go biking trough Europe one day when im done with my study. You inspired me
Great videos, love the way you share the extreme emotions experienced on an extended cycle tour.
You are still young so have many adventures ahead of you in the future, enjoy the ride..
Thank you.
I really enjoyed hearing your self-reflection and thoughts at the end of the video. Generally, the fact that you shared your emotions so openly in your bikepacking series has made your videos very relatable and they really help me to prepare myself mentally for my first solo bikepacking tour – thank you for taking us, the viewers, along on your journey. I enjoyed every video of this series tremendously!