Arriving HOME after 5 months CYCLING across EUROPE | Bikepacking Europe Ep. 19
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The last week of cycling across Europe started in Romania. Leaving Timisoara was as scary as cycling in the city and I couldn't have left Romania without another dog attack, haha.
As soon as I crossed the border to Hungary I felt relieved to escape the crazy drivers and dog attacks. It is weird, it is just a border, a small piece of land, but lots can change by crossing it.
Every day during this week I felt weird.
It felt good to cycle through Hungary, Austria and Slovakia again, see the the same familiar EV6 route and the same places I passed 150 days ago when I was starting my bike tour across Europe. I also felt like I wanted to stop there, or turn back, not go to the old life I had.
This is the hardest thing for me: going back to a "normal" life after feeling absolute freedom for 5 months.
What was supposed to be an easy cycling week, it turned out to be quite challenging, both physically and mentally. If you want to find out why, join me in this adventure, join me for the last stretch of a bikepacking trip I will never forget.
#bikepacking #easterneurope #cyclingvlog #untraveledroads #biketouring
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00:00 In this episode…
01:46 Leaving Timisoara
02:46 Leaving Romania
04:38 Back in Hungary
08:24 Hello Danube
12:30 Fullspeed to Budapest
13:36 Cycling Budapest to Komarno
15:32 A bumpy ride till Bratislava
19:12 Last day of this bike tour
21:09 A bike odyssey across Europe
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@UntraveledRoadsOfficial Жыл бұрын
Can not believe the bike odyssey accross Europe has come to an end🚵🚴♀ - Thank you for joining me on this amazing adventure! If you are curious about my next adventure checkout my project peaksof.eu and I hope you will be as excited as me for this new challenge 🧗♀
@Aragorn.Strider Жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed watching your ride. Different countries, different roads, houses, cultures. An epic adventure. And then to hear all the hardship you had to deal with. Fixing the issue and continue. It seems simple, but it's not. A job well done
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙌🙏🙃 Really motivating to hear this feedback - Thanks!
@PS-uv5zz 3 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed hearing your self-reflection and thoughts at the end of the video. Generally, the fact that you shared your emotions so openly in your bikepacking series has made your videos very relatable and they really help me to prepare myself mentally for my first solo bikepacking tour - thank you for taking us, the viewers, along on your journey. I enjoyed every video of this series tremendously!
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial 3 ай бұрын
Thank you! Really happy to read your comment, glad you enjoyed it! 🙏☺☺
@petegibson007 Жыл бұрын
Enjoy the next chapter of your life 👍
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙏🤗
@geoopsy Жыл бұрын
Congratulations ! Thank you for taking us with you.
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thank you and thank you for joining 🙏😊
@dream_up_tomorrow 5 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial 5 ай бұрын
🙏😊
@zwampel Жыл бұрын
Hey Georg, I have watched the whole series in about 2 weeks. I found it really inspiring. I especially loved the episodes from croatia, montenegro, albania and greece, i just love the scenery there! Thank you for the beautiful videos! I would love to go biking trough Europe one day when im done with my study. You inspired me
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial Жыл бұрын
Hey, Thanks for the comment, really nice and motivating to hear 😊 I definitely can recommend a tour like this also if you would not have the best bike it’s a lot of fun 👌🙌
@RoOctavian Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great video, was an amazing trip ! Congratulations ! 🚴
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thank you! 😊🙏🙌
@SimonMartin-tz5ii 11 ай бұрын
Great videos, love the way you share the extreme emotions experienced on an extended cycle tour. You are still young so have many adventures ahead of you in the future, enjoy the ride..
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial 11 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment ☺️🙏 yes the next adventure is waiting 🚵♀️🚵
@welshtraveller1113 Жыл бұрын
Another excellent video. Good luck in the next chapter of your life. Thanks for taking us with you on your adventure.
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Happy to hear and hope you will join we for the next journey as well 🙌🙏🙃
@huninmunin1732 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great video came from Reddit
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
@jengreatrex7384 Жыл бұрын
That was an amazing trip. Thank you for taking us with you. I wish you happiness as you continue your adventures.
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thank you! 🙌🙏 And thanks for joining!
@varkonyitibor4409 Жыл бұрын
3:50 Banat had ethnic German population, many of those villages between Timisoara /Temeschwar/ and present Hungarian border had ethnic German majority back when this area belonged to Austria-Hungary
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial Жыл бұрын
Hey thanks for the comment. I didn’t know that 🙏 was it German population or Austrian / Hungarians ?
@varragoastu Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the journey. 🙂
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial Жыл бұрын
My pleasure! Thanks for joining 🙌😊
@meinefresse94 Жыл бұрын
Good to see you made it :) And that you have future goals But remember, it is dangerous to go alone.
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial Жыл бұрын
Thanks 😊🙌 - yep really looking forward to start the peaks already and there for some mountains I wont be alone 🙃
@dmitryru53 Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial Жыл бұрын
☺🙏
@Scott-ll2rl Жыл бұрын
Do you have a Strava map of your trip?
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial Жыл бұрын
Hey, I tracked only the individual days, but I plan to combine them into the whole map and share it soon 🙌
@Aragorn.Strider Жыл бұрын
I would avoid those busy roads as much as possible. There were several near misses on your ride. On komoot, these are marked as yellow/orange. If it's like 100meter, then to be honest, it's not that big of a deal, but anything more I really try to avoid. In my country, the Netherlands, a cyclist is not even allowed to cycle there. But yes, the Netherlands seems to be the exception. If you have a gravel-bike chosing unpaved roads, or roads which take longer, more touristy are more relaxed. On the other hand, ... the distance then also increases A LOT. It's not easy, I know.
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial Жыл бұрын
Hey, ye generally I fully agree on the trip some countries were exceptions like along the coast in Croatia where you could not really escape or in my experience the yellow roads in Albania were safer than the smaller ones. In Romania, I tried to switch eventually, which proved as the better decision. I think countries like Austria and the Netherlands (even though I only biked in and around cities) make it way easier to not go on the bigger roads. With less stress and a nicer experience. I need to admit during the tour I got big respect for road cyclists, they have nerves made out of steel
@Aragorn.Strider Жыл бұрын
@@UntraveledRoadsOfficial And even in my country, the Netherlands, where people would agree its super-safe, probably the safest in the world, still cyclists get hit. And then they lay on the asphalt with a broken jaw and blood all over the place. Either the car-ist or the bike-ist do something stupid. Yes they wear a helmet, but the helmet does not safe the jaw, elbow, knee etc. Good to see you made it all in one piece.
@UntraveledRoadsOfficial Жыл бұрын
Ye could not agree more. I think on both sides there are stupid mistakes made, saw car drivers doing horrible maneuvers and cyclist who are (at least based on their protection) driving way to aggressive,