A cool, sunny day with a light tailwind.
The route today was away from the Danube, alongside a country road with occasional small towns. The countryside was farmland, very large fields of corn, wheat, hay and sunflowers. They used to be collective farms, but were privatized after the communist period. Good riding, except that the bike path planners forgot that as trees grow their roots do. Many speed bumps. Not an exciting route, but better than yesterday's long stretch on a dike.
We reached the 130,000 pop. city of Gyor by lunchtime, found a hotel, rested up, and took a long walk around town. We visited the national art collection currently housed at an Esterhazy palace, and visited the basilica where we saw the gold-encrusted skull of St. Ladislaz from the 11th century, a national icon with a long history of being plundered, lost, stolen, and burned, each time being redone more elaborately than before.
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