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hello everybody,
last summer I made a long journey by bike from Italy to Poland, through Slovenja, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland. Here you have the link to the website where you can find report, pictures, information, links and so on... http://bikerfab.altervista.org/ Hope you like it Bikerfab |
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I like the map of your route and the photos a lot. I've heard that the
car drivers are a little wild and maybe dangerous for a bicycle. Did you find that true? Gary In article , bikerfab wrote: hello everybody, last summer I made a long journey by bike from Italy to Poland, through Slovenja, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland. Here you have the link to the website where you can find report, pictures, information, links and so on... http://bikerfab.altervista.org/ Hope you like it Bikerfab |
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On 2006-10-01, gka wrote:
I like the map of your route and the photos a lot. I've heard that the car drivers are a little wild and maybe dangerous for a bicycle. Did you find that true? Newly rich are the problem all over the world. It was quite horrible when Norwegians found oil and switched from horsedriven carriages to sport cars. Now things have settled. |
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On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 02:16:38 GMT, gka wrote:
I like the map of your route and the photos a lot. I've heard that the car drivers are a little wild and maybe dangerous for a bicycle. Did you find that true? thanks, I hope people will like also report and find useful my information. About traffic, as written along the text related to individual stages, I run mostly on countryside roads with very little traffic, but not only. In Slovenja I noticed that drivers run rather fast, nothing particular in other places. In general I found riding on the road quite safe. Though not like in Austria and Germany where cars literally go on the other side of the road to avoid cyclists, I had really no problem at all with cars during my journey. In general I think it is due to a lower population density of the countries I visited. In Italy things are totally different, where I live (northern Italy) it's not very safe to ride on normal roads out of weekend. At least it is very annoying. -- bikerfab Viaggi in bicicletta, report foto e informazioni Travelling by bycicle, report, pics and information http://bikerfab.altervista.org/ |
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A very enjoyable report to read. I've biked extensively, but always in the
"first world" where my languages "work" - mainly English, French and German. I also know Swedish tolerably well, for ethnic identity reasons, but that's hardly a help outside Scandinavia. I think I could muddle through in Spanish or other Latin or Germanic languages. But I'd be totally lost in the Slavic languages. Evidently you made it, even in areas where only Polish was spoken. I assume there was a lot of pointing and nodding and gesturing. Did you have any incidents where you couldn't communicate at all? Are there enough hotels in the rural areas. A post a couple months ago by a rider who went through Russia and the Ukraine said hotels were hard to find. "bikerfab" wrote in message ... On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 02:16:38 GMT, gka wrote: I like the map of your route and the photos a lot. I've heard that the car drivers are a little wild and maybe dangerous for a bicycle. Did you find that true? thanks, I hope people will like also report and find useful my information. About traffic, as written along the text related to individual stages, I run mostly on countryside roads with very little traffic, but not only. In Slovenja I noticed that drivers run rather fast, nothing particular in other places. In general I found riding on the road quite safe. Though not like in Austria and Germany where cars literally go on the other side of the road to avoid cyclists, I had really no problem at all with cars during my journey. In general I think it is due to a lower population density of the countries I visited. In Italy things are totally different, where I live (northern Italy) it's not very safe to ride on normal roads out of weekend. At least it is very annoying. -- bikerfab Viaggi in bicicletta, report foto e informazioni Travelling by bycicle, report, pics and information http://bikerfab.altervista.org/ |
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Ron Wallenfang wrote:
But I'd be totally lost in the Slavic languages. Evidently you made it, even in areas where only Polish was spoken. I assume there was a lot of pointing and nodding and gesturing. Did you have any incidents where you couldn't communicate at all? I did a lengthy cycle tour in what is now the Czech Republic 20 years ago. At that time, very few Czechs spoke English. (This has changed since; I heard that Prague now has three English-language newspapers.) However, there were usually English speakers at the tourist agency, Cedok. I used them to set up the hotel reservation in whatever town I was going to next. -- Bob Broughton http://broughton.ca/ Vancouver, BC, Canada "It should be legal for a private maternity ward to permit smoking." - Chuck Wright, May 22, 2006 |
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bikerfab wrote: On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 02:16:38 GMT, gka wrote: ... In Italy things are totally different, where I live (northern Italy) it's not very safe to ride on normal roads out of weekend. At least it is very annoying. -- bikerfab Viaggi in bicicletta, report foto e informazioni Travelling by bycicle, report, pics and information http://bikerfab.altervista.org/ Looks like a real nice trip. I visited Italy a few years ago. We took the trains everywhere, and didn't cycle at all. It did seem that people drove fast, or maybe the large numbers of loud Vespas and other Motorcycles just made it seem that way. Is it the city riding that you find annoying? It seems like the country riding might be nice. Some friends of mine enjoyed their cycling trip to Italy. They visited that famous cycling historical museum (the name escapes me). ---- Jim Gagnepain http://home.comcast.net/~oil_free_and_happy/ |
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Ron Wallenfang ha scritto:
Did you have any incidents where you couldn't communicate at all? Are there enough hotels in the rural areas. A post a couple months ago by a rider who went through Russia and the Ukraine said hotels were hard to find. yes of course I helped my communication with gestures, but I found actually not very hard to communicate with non-english/german speaking people. Nothing bad when I couldn't communicate at all, just saying bye and trying to find somebody else, but it was almost not needed at all. It was also quite funny to talk with people who always made an effort to understand me. About hotels, before leaving I had prepared a long list of hotels sorted by places along my path, list built collecting information on the internet. I had enough adresses everywhere (about every 10-20km) except in Poland, where I coulnd't collect information for lack of time and because I found it very hard. Actually it was rather difficult to find hotels in Polish countryside. Some of my stages have been shorten because of that. -- bikerfab Viaggi in bicicletta, report foto e informazioni Travelling by bycicle, report, pics and information http://bikerfab.altervista.org/ |
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oilfreeandhappy ha scritto:
Looks like a real nice trip. I visited Italy a few years ago. We took the trains everywhere, and didn't cycle at all. It did seem that people drove fast, or maybe the large numbers of loud Vespas and other Motorcycles just made it seem that way. Is it the city riding that you find annoying? It seems like the country riding might be nice. in general city riding is not very comfortable at all, apart some of them (but riding in Warszawa was not comfortable as well :-)). Anyway I meant riding on extra-urban roads. If you mean small countryside/hill/mountain roads it is true, traffic is quite low, but average-size roads between major/medium cities are rather busy on working days (especially heavy and dangerous lorries), much more than what I found in my journey. Weekend is different, and everything may strongly depend on the place where you are. -- bikerfab Viaggi in bicicletta, report foto e informazioni Travelling by bycicle, report, pics and information http://bikerfab.altervista.org/ |
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