The plan today was to get a fairly early start but the howling wind and rain last night kept us up most of the night. At least we know the tent can take a good rainstorm and keep us dry. The morning wasn't looking too promising, but John walked to the store and bought some breakfast food and we consumed it in a little stage area protected from the still howling wind. We were pretty set on not riding today because of the wind so after breakfast we walked into town and did some email stuff and discussed what we might want to do. It got to be about 11:30 and we decided to brave the wind and see if we could make it up into the hills to Tapolca where we wanted to visit a cave. The sun was starting to peek out, but the wind was still blowing as we mounted the iron donkeys. Our route took us away from the lake, through farmlands and vineyards with the wind buffeting us mostly from the side. There were a few stretches where the road turned to an unfavorable direction and we took th!
e wind head on. In Gyulakesz we took a break outside a bar for a snack, bought a drink and used the facilities. Luck was on our side as we entered Tapolca and found the cave right off. The cave was really an underground river. The tour consists of getting in a small boat and looping around the cavern for about 15 minutes. Kind of hokie, but, hey we were there. When we set off today we thought we might get a room tonite depending on the weather and how we felt. Well, we were feeling pretty good and the wind was in our favor back down to the lake so off we sailed. Ha Ha. We made it to Gyenesdias, found a campground and called it a day.
Kms 52.70
Time 3:14:35
Avg 16.2
Max 38.3
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