Gypsy Biker

The road from Bratislava to Budapest will remain in my memory for a long time… But not for a very good reason…!! I was heading to Budapest to stay with a man who I had never met, but who had been a huge help to me over the past few weeks, sending me information about [...]

My first foray into Slovakia had been a whistle stop one, cutting across the northern areas on the way to Prague in the Czech Republic… I decided to see what the capital Bratislava was all about, and then take a slow ride through to Budapest in Hungary the following day… I left Vienna after 11.00am, [...]

The ride down to the Slovakian border of Chyzne was certainly made on one of the better roads in Poland… It twisted its way through the southern outskirts of Krakow, plunging down into little valleys and through villages, before climbing again through thickly wooded forests towards the Jelesna River, which forms part of the border [...]