Day 32, Monday, June 20 – Bratislava to Komarno, Slovakia
Monday 20 June 2011
From our hotel window this morning we could tell the storm from yesterday evening had blown away the clouds and left a crystal clear blue sky. 
Stepping outside, we realized the clouds may be gone, but the wind was still there and still at our backs, yippie!
We were quickly out of the city and biking along the dike, once again with no one in sight. 
From the height of the dike we traveled, we almost had a bird’s eye view of the towns as we sailed down river.
Occasionally, the wind would gust from our side and remind us just why we were making such good time on our journey today. The Donau is quite wide at this point
(much like the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay) with a well reinforced dike wall.
The stretch down river of Bratislava has not quite caught on with the bike tour traffic, so there are no cafes along the route. The towns are sparse of shops, even a grocery store was tough to find when trying to hunt down a soda for lunch. Eastern Europe is still playing catch-up to it’s western neighbors, homes are more modest, churches are smaller
but everyone has a garden of some sort
and though the fruit was tempting, we only took pictures.
Luckily our route was relativity straight, as we certainly could not understand the language.
But made it into Komárno and to a quite nice hotel 
(they even have a sand volleyball court) with ease. Not bad after 74 miles.
The “Old City” is small, but quite nice.
You can see the effort and money that have put into it to spruce it up, 
add restaurants and shops and make it “ready for the tourists”.
Just hoping the price structure doesn’t change. We both just had two scoops of ice cream for somewhere around $2. and change. It is interesting, both yesterday in Bratislava and today in Komárno, the menus are in the local language as well as English and everyone seems to speak enough English to answer your questions. Lovely people!
Carmond Says:
Great pictures! Have you seen many cruise ships on the Danube?
Jerry and Lori Says:
OMG, yes, crazy amount, have we not shown you the pictures?
Carmond Says:
There have been a few parked along the side. I was just surprised that there isn’t more river traffic. More serene than I imagined. We are looking at river cruises for next spring and it seems like there are so many available that the river would be busier. Really enjoying the pictures. Dick wants to do the Passau to Budapest route, so you’re our tour guides to check it out!
Carmond Says:
There have been a few parked along the side. I was just surprised that there isn’t more river traffic. More serene than I imagined. We are looking at river cruises for next spring and it seems like there are so many available that the river would be busier. Really enjoying the pictures. Dick wants to do the Passau to Budapest route, so you’re our tour guides to check it out!
Carmond Says:
There have been a few parked along the side. I was just surprised that there isn’t more river traffic. More serene than I imagined. We are looking at river cruises for next spring and it seems like there are so many available that the river would be busier. Really enjoying the pictures. Dick wants to do the Passau to Budapest route, so you’re our tour guides to check it out!
Carmond Says:
There have been a few parked along the side. I was just surprised that there isn’t more river traffic. More serene than I imagined. We are looking at river cruises for next spring and it seems like there are so many available that the river would be busier. Really enjoying the pictures. Dick wants to do the Passau to Budapest route, so you’re our tour guides to check it out!
christa Says:
What wonderful photos and incredible video. What lucky and “FIT” kids you are. Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh`