Q: How do you cross a swollen river?

A:  With difficulty.  We've just taken a 60km detour to cross a bridge, because the Blue Danube is flowing very brown and a bit higher than the norm.

And we're now camped within about 50 feet of it!  On it's way back down now, but apparently the townwe're in was cut off for 5 days within the last fortnight!  Surprisingly, loads of mossies again tonight, so expect tales of woe and anti-hystamine next time...  Free internet though, so ups and downs!

All of which means, for you geographers out there, that yes we are now in the land of the Magyar (Hungary), having crossed Slovakia from Poland today.  We had some great weather and passed through / around the High Tatras mountains.  Sad to leave Poland behind actually, but I'm sure we'll come back for a better look at the middle and top bits - we have only touched the edge really.

We've had some nasty weather, which I think has plagued this region for a couple of months, so todays blue skies and 25+ degrees was very welcome.  It made the drive through the mainly green forests and hills of Slovakia very pleasant indeed - Fran didn't even fall asleep today.  The central bit we drove through is very pretty, a bit like Wales I decided, but bigger!

Back to Krakow briefly and a couple of snaps for you:

a) The Cathedral in the Wawel.

b) The Dragon on a break from the grotto, breathing fire - which he seems to do about every 1/2 hour for 5 seconds, so catching it was pretty impressive, I think!

c) Some art thing.


Budapest tomorrow and the plan is to camp right in the centre, so looking forward to that.