Day 161, Baia Mare – Mt. Mogosa

Weather: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, at a good bakery in Baia Mare) Track: 🇷🇴🇷🇴 (2 out of 5, first 60% was roadwalking, after that it was trail through the forest. Beautiful but hard to follow, because there were…

Zeroday 26, Baia Mare

A day with the usual tasks of laundry, repairing, resupply and planning. And good food! And giving our body some rest, which is a the most needed ànd most difficult in a day like this…😅 The bed was very good…

Day 160, Cicarlau – Baia Mare

Weather: ☀️🌤️⛅🌥️🌥️ Lunch: 🥪🥪 (2 out 5, in the shade with bread, together with a begging dog, next to the supermarket) Track: 🇷🇴 (1 out of 5, track and then roadwalk through villages due to an overgrown trail that ceased…

Day 159, Homorodu de Jos – Cicarlau

Weather: ☀️☀️☀️🌥️🌤️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, in the shade with bread, next to the supermarket in Pomi) Track: 🇷🇴🇷🇴 (2 out of 5, track through forest, roadwalk through villages and an interesting bridge…)Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ (3 out of 5, flat…

Day 158, Baba Novac – Homorodu de Jos

Weather: ☀️🌤️⛅🌤️⛅ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, in the shade with bread, next to the supermarket in Viile Satu Mare) Track: 🇷🇴 (1 out of 5, a lot of roadwalking through fields and villages, because the track ceased to exist.)…

Day 157, Carei – Baba Novac

Weather: ☀️☀️☀️🌥️🌤️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, in the shade with bread, next to the supermarket in Moftinu Mare) Track: 🇷🇴 (1 out of 5, dusty, sandy track through fields and villages.) Milestone: 4000 km!Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ (3 out of 5,…

Day 156, Piricse – Carei

Weather: 🌧️☁️⛅☀️☀️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, in the shade with bread, next to the supermarket in Foieni) Track: 🇭🇺🇷🇴 (2 out of 5, dusty, sandy track through fields, forest and villages.)Milestone: Hungary ✅Hotel: 🛌🛌🛌 (3 out of 5, nice…

Day 155, Niyrbator – Piricse

Weather: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, in the shade with bread and from the bakery in Niyrbator) Track: 🇭🇺🇭🇺 (2 out of 5, dusty, sandy track through fields, forest and villages.) Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ (3 out of 5, flat spot in…

Zeroday 25, Hajduszoboszlo

Another lazy day! So we sleep in and have a nice breakfast with Turkish eggs at the Duck café. After that we do some chores and around noon we go to the spa. This time we choose the indoor area.…

Zeroday 24, Hajduszoboszlo

We sleep in today and have a lazy start. We walk into the village and do a little resupply before we go to the Hungarospa. At the entrance, we need to make a choice between all the different parts of…

Day 154, Rohod – Niyrbator–> Hajduszoboszlo

Weather: 🌤️☀️🌤️🌤️☀️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, in the shade with bread and cheese from the supermarket in Rohod) Track: 🇭🇺🇭🇺 (2 out of 5, track through fields, forest and villages.) Hotel: 🛌🛌🛌🛌 (4 out of 5, spacious, clean appartment…

Day 153, Rétközberencs – Rohod

Weather: 🌤️☀️🌤️🌤️☀️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, in the shade next to a church with bread and cheese from the Tesco in Kisvarda) Track: 🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺 (3 out of 5, track through green fields and villages. Still boring, but better than…

Day 152, Karcsa Becsked – Rétközberencs

Weather: ☁️☁️☁️🌧️☁️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, Langós in Cigánd) Track: 🇭🇺🇭🇺 (2 out of 5, track through dusty fields, extra points for the 2 villages along the way 😅) Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ (3 out of 5, flat spot in a field)…

Day 151, Malý Trna – Karcsa Becsked

Weather: 🌤️🌤️🌤️🌤️🌤️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, in the shade next to the dyke with bread from the bakery in Satoraljaujhely) Track: 🇸🇰🇭🇺 (2 out of 5, track through dusty fields) Milestone: Slovakia ✅Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ (3 out of 5, flat spot…

Day 150, Slanska Huta – Malý Trna

Weather: ☀️☀️🌤️🌤️☀️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, lunch from the small supermarket in front of the train station ) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (3 out of 5, Nice track through the forest and fields)Hotel: 🛌🛌🛌 (3 out of 5, nice room with…

Day 149, Kosice – Slanska Huta

Weather: ☀️☀️🌤️🌤️☀️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, unexpected pizza and pinsa in Nizna Mysla) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰 (2 out of 5, bit boring track along the river Hornad, followed by an ok track through the forest. No water along the way)Milestone: 3750…

Zeroday 23, Kosiče

After a warm night, we slept in a bit before going for breakfast. Before we reach the breakfast place, we hear a lot of noise coming from the main square. A lot of people are on their way there, so…

Day 148, Chata Lajoska – Kosice

Weather: 🌥️🌤️☀️🌤️☀️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, slices of bread with duck paté at the SNP cafe in Kosice…) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (3 out of 5, Nice track through the forest, an easy walk out of the mountains) Track intensity: 😯😯😯😯, 4…

Day 147, away from Stos Kupule – Chata Lajoska

Weather: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, wraps with Nutella and a breakfast, because the wraps are almost finished too…) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (3 out of 5, Nice but tough track through the forest, with nice views) Track intensity: 😯😯😯😯, 4 our…

Day 146, Chata Volovec – away from Stos Kupule

Weather: ⛅🌤️🌤️☀️🌤️Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, wraps with Nutella, peanut butter is finished…) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (3 out of 5, Nice track through the forest, with nice views) Track intensity: 😯😯😯😯, 4 out of 5, too long for our liking, but…

Day 144, Chata Gápel – Útulna Galova

Weather: 🌤️⛅☁️🌧️☁️⛅Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, wraps with Nutella and peanut butter in a great hut while it rains outside) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (4 out of 5, Nice track through the forest, with some nice views, extra points for lunch place)…

Day 143, Telgart – Chata Gápel

Weather: 🌤️🌤️🌤️🌤️🌤️Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, wraps with cheese and chicken at a picnic bench) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (3 out of 5, Nice track through the forest, with some nice views) Track intensity: 😯😯😯, really doable for all three of us!)…

Day 142, Útulna Andrejkova – Telgart

Weather: 🌤️🌤️☀️🌤️☀️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, pizza in Telgart with Rein, Maja and Nikola) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (4 out of 5, beautiful track on the ridgeline to Kralova Ho’la, then tough track 1100m of elevation loss in 5 km..😅.)Track intensity:…

Day 141, Útulna Ramza – Útulna Andrejkova

Weather: 🌤️🌤️☀️🌤️☀️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out of 5, wraps and hardkeks in the shade) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (4 out of 5, Nice but tough track on the ridgeline down into Priehyba saddle and steep up again towards the hut, great views,…

Day 140, Chata Stefanika – Útulna Ramza

Weather: 🌤️🌤️☀️🌤️☀️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, good burger/ pulled pork dumpling at the restaurant on the Certovica pass) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (4 out of 5, Nice track on the ridgeline down to the pass and a narrow winding trail up to…

Day 139, Útulna pod Durkova – Chata Stefanika

Weather: 🌤️🌤️☀️🌤️⛅🌬️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, nice pasta meal at Chopok restaurant) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (6 out of 5, steep up to the ridgeline from the hut and then great views and relatively easy hiking to Chopok and a cool…

Day 138, Útulna pod Kečkou – Útulna pod Dorkova

Weather: 🌤️🌤️☀️🌤️⛅🌬️ Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, cake and crackers on the top of Prasiva, after a 700m climb) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (5 out of 5, first 7 km steep but pretty track up to the ridgeline. From there it was…

Day 137, Kralova Studna – Útulna pod Kečkou

Weather: 🌤️☀️☀️🌤️☀️Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, wraps in a bench in the shade)Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (4 out of 5, best views of the hike so far, really tough but pretty mountain track through the forest and easy going last kilometers)Track intensity:…

Day 136, 3500 km Útulna Kapucínka – Králova Studna

Weather: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️Picnic:🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, wraps and blueberries in the ‘blueberry maze’) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (4 out of 5, mountain trail through the forest. First 22 km were tough but pretty, last 10 km was easy but a little boring) Track…

Day 134, Vrícke sedlo – Jozkovna

Weather: 🌤️⛅⛅🌤️🌤️Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, wraps on a bench in the shade) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (4 out of 5, mountain trail through the forest and flower meadows with beautiful views ) Track intensity: 😯😯😯(3 out of 5 quite tough in…

Day 133, Fučkovske sedlo – Vrícke sedlo – Klástor

Weather: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ 🥵🥵 Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪 (5 out 5, home made lunch by Jana’s mom, with Jana and Daniel) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (4 out of 5, mountain trail through the forest and flower meadows with beautiful views) Track intensity: 😯😯😯 (3 out…

Day 132, Čičmany – Fučkovske sedlo

Weather: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ 🥵🥵 Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪 (5 out 5, home made lunch by Jana’s mom, with Jana and Daniel) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (4 out of 5, tough mountain trail through the forest and flower meadows with beautiful views )Track intensity: 😯😯😯(3 out…

Day 131, Čičmany – Zliechov – Čičmany

Weather: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ 🥵🥵 Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, bread from the supermarket in the hotel room) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (3 out of 5, up and over the hill trail through the forest and flower meadows filled with butterflies) Track intensity: 😯😯😯…

Day 130, Horná Poruba – Čičmany

Weather: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ 🥵🥵 Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, wraps in the shade on the forest track ) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (3 out of 5, tough day on a mountain trail with a lot of elevation and some nice views) Track intensity:…

Day 129, Trenčín – Horná Poruba

Weather: 🌤️🌤️🌤️🌤️🌤️ 🥵 Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, spaghetti Bolognese in the spa town Trenčianske Teplice) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (3 out of 5, tough day on a mountain trail with a lot of elevation) Track intensity: 😯😯😯😯😵 (5 out of 5.…

Zeroday 22, Trenčín

Another day of sleeping in! I like sleeping in 😁. We slowly get up, pack our bags, and have breakfast. Just before 10 we leave our apartment and head to our new hotel. We leave our bags there and go…

Zeroday 21, Trenčín

Despite the warm, sticky night we sleep well. We hang the laundry that has cleaned itself during the night (we appreciate washing machines very much by now!) and go out for breakfast. Slovakia is our favorite coffee nation sofar, and…

Day 128, Inoveca chata – Trenčín

Weather: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ 🥵Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, home made sauerkraut soup and meatball/lentil stew at Hostinec U Ondreja)Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (3 out of 5, tougher than expected trail through the forest and fields, passing through the town of Soblahov and into…

Day 127, Visnové – Inoveca chata

Weather: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, bread from the supermarket in the forest) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (4 out of 5, pretty trail through the forest and through the city of Nove Mesto, the river valley, and up Inovec mountain passing Beckov…

Day 126, Holubyho chata – Visnové

Weather: ☀️🌤️☀️🌤️☀️ Picnic: 🥪🥪 (2 out 5, bread at the supermarket in Lubina. The spot we chose was shabby and made us feel like hobo’s) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (4 out of 5, pretty forest trail down the Slovakian hills, great views…

Day 125, Brezová pod Bradlom – Holubyho chata

Weather: ☀️🌤️🌤️⛈️⛅Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, basic hearty meal in a restaurant in Myjava) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (4 out of 5, pretty forest trail up in the Slovakian hills, along the Czech-Slovak border, great views from the top of Vel’ka Javorina)…

Day 124, 3250 km Havranica – Brezová pod Bradlom

Weather: ☀️🌤️🌤️☀️☀️Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, wraps with peanut butter and Nutella) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 (3 out of 5, nice forest trail into the Slovakian hills, with cool Ridgeline at the start of the day) Milestone: 3250 km!Hotel: 🛌🛌🛌 (3 out…

Day 123, 2000 miles! Hórny Vrch – Havranica

Weather: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, wraps with peanut butter and Nutella)Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰(4 out of 5, tough but pretty forest trail into the Slovakian hills, with beautiful views) Milestone: 2000 miles!Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ (3 out of 5, flat spot in the…

Day 122 Biely Kríz – Hórny Vrch

Weather: 🌤️🌤️🌤️🌤️🌤️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, lentil soup and Langos bread at Baba…) Track: 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰(3 out of 5, nice forest trail into the Slovakian hills)Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ (3 out of 5, flat spot in the forest)Name of followed trail: SNP trail…

Day 121, Hainburg an der Donau – Biely Kríz

Weather: 🌤️🌤️⛈️🌤️⛈️🌤️Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, bread at the gas station, taking shelter from the rain. Bread was good, location could be better…)Track: 🇦🇹🇸🇰🇸🇰(3 out of 5, diverse walk along the Donau and through Bratislava into the forest)Milestone: Austria ✅…

Day 120, Orth an der Donau – Hainburg an der Donau

Weather: ☀️🌤️☀️🌤️🌤️ Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, wraps on a picnic bench) Track: 🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹 (3 out of 5, walk through forested flatlands and along the Donau. More diverse than yesterday, yet nothing really special)Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺ (3 out of 5, flat…

Day 119, Vienna – Orth an der Donau

Weather: ☀️🌤️☀️🌤️🌤️ Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, bread from the supermarket at a picnic place with a closed cafe) Track: 🇦🇹🇦🇹 (overall 2 out of 5, Cool to walk out of Vienna for 2 km, after that 32 km of…

Zeroday 20, Vienna

We woke up in time and went for a very good breakfast. After that we took our bicycles to the Hofburg, to see some royal treasures from the time of the Austria-Hungarian empire. This was a vast empire. We’ll be…