Hello! I just wanted to start this blog to share my interest (perhaps love?!) in Cycling.. I think this really started watching highlights of the Tour de France when i was a child. Unsuprisingly i became a little bit of a Francophile too!
As such i've always cycled finding like many others before and after as a real opportunity to go free range even when relatively small.
I now live in Budapest and continue my passion here. In many way the city is very suited to cycling with the pancake flat Pest providing an obvious contrast to the (steep!) Hills of Buda. At the same time the city is still undergoing a culture a change a lot of investment being put into creation of cycle lanes in a short period time and mainly as the result of the increasing prices of petrol and stagnant wages numbers of cyclists rapidly increasing. Yet many drivers have yet to really come to terms with the changes. In a country where there seems to be a quite a large number of accidents on the road cyclist are increasingly becoming involved. I have personal experience of this from both sides causing damage to an oncoming car while i was dozing (a reccurring problem) and also being the blameless victim of an absent minded driver.
All in all i have a positive experience during my time here!
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