{"id":2095,"date":"2011-06-20T20:44:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2011-10-22T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T19:16:07","slug":"day-32-monday-june-20-bratislava-to-komarno-slovakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"Day 32, Monday, June 20 – Bratislava to Komarno, Slovakia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0\"\"<\/a> Stepping outside, we realized the clouds may be gone, but the wind was still there and still at our backs, yippie!<\/p>\n

We were quickly out of the city and biking along the dike, once again with no one in sight.\u00a0 \"\"<\/a>From the height of the dike we traveled, we almost had a bird’s eye view of the towns as we sailed down river.\"\"<\/a>Occasionally, the wind would gust from our side and remind us just why we were making such good time on our journey today.\u00a0 The Donau is quite wide at this point\"\"<\/a> (much like the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay) with a well reinforced dike wall.<\/p>\n

The stretch down river of Bratislava has not quite caught on with the bike tour traffic, so there are no cafes along the route.\u00a0 The towns are sparse of shops, even a grocery store was tough to find when trying to hunt down a soda for lunch.\u00a0 Eastern Europe is still playing catch-up to it’s western neighbors, homes are more modest, churches are smaller<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>but everyone has a garden of some sort\"\"<\/a>and though the fruit was tempting, we only took pictures.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Luckily our route was relativity straight, as we certainly could not understand the language.\"\"<\/a>But made it into Kom\u00e1rno and<\/em> to a quite nice hotel <\/a>\"\"<\/a> (they even have a sand volleyball court) with ease.\u00a0 Not bad after 74 miles.<\/p>\n

The “Old City” is small, but quite nice.\"\"<\/a> You can see the effort and money that have put into it to spruce it up, \"\"<\/a>add restaurants and shops and make it “ready for the tourists”.\"\"<\/a>Just hoping the price structure doesn’t change.\u00a0 We both just had two scoops of ice cream for somewhere around $2. and change.\u00a0 It is interesting, both yesterday in Bratislava and today in Kom\u00e1rno, the menus are in the local language as well as English and everyone seems to speak enough English to answer your questions.\u00a0 Lovely people!\n\t\t