Five Rivers bike tour (Bavaria)

In August we experience the beauties of Bavaria on the one of the best German bike tours: The Five Rivers bike tour. Tour is rather flat and well prepared with most of the kilometers outside of the car traffic. There is always water near by to refresh when it is becaming too hot form cycling or from the Sun. The countryside is picturesque. Often on the way there are white rocks, castles, midle age towns, forests making it full of attractions. Our kids enjoyed most Archaeology Park in Altmühltal were the Celtics buildings are reconstructed and stay directly next to the path in more stations.

There are many campings places and other accommodation on the way. You can download the official map on the Geo-Data Five Rivers bike tour

Cycling with children from Bratislava to Budapest, following Eurovelo 6 and Danube

Take a map

Eurovelo 6 from Bratisalava to Butapest is prepared but, but not 100%. There are parts of the road that lead on the usual roads with cars traffic. Also the signs are not always on the place, so be sure to take good map or download some gpx before. You can also use ours (althought small part is missing):

Level

The terrain is nearly flat all the time and therefor it is perfect to cycle with kids. The youngest participant from our group that cycled on his own was 5 years old! We did around 30 km per day, with maximum of 50 km per day.

Attractions

There are lots of attractions on the way. Beautiful cities: Budapest, Bratislava, Komarno, Eszegrom...Druging the first night we stayed in the camping in Čunovo with lot of water sports attractions including rafting and surfing. In Komarno and Štúrovo are thermal baths of a great smell and taste. We have eaten lot of Langos - local specialties, Bryndzove Halusky in Slovakia and many fruits and vegetables cooked on our one, that we bought from local people. Hungary is a free country, you can sleep on the beach and have a fire place there. Great atmosphere. People are very nice and friendly. Only sometimes it is hard to communicate. It is good to learn a few Hungarian words before.

Start in Bratislava, on the bridge through the Danube

Beach at the Danube

Most of the campings have a smaller or bigger swimming pool

Komarno, Europa square

Štúrovo, thermal bath

Camping at the beach

In beautiful Budapest

Fürstenberg/Havel city: the sign of our time

To Fürstenberg/Havel we get by very nice bicycle road from Berlin Spandau(126km) called Havelradweg. The road goes nearly all the time out of car roads and it is often better quality the those car roads. From Fürstenberg you can the the regional train back to Berlin. It is quite lowly city, although also with the dark history from the XX century. But the biggest impression made on me the main square: On the one side is the evangelic church from XIX century and on the other side NETTO! Build also from the sand bricks, but in XXI century style. Each side of the square shows what is the most important value of their times.