Love your video series on the Danube! Can't wait to go with 3 of my buddies I've known since 1975. So many great adventures with my boys through the years! This one will be the best for sure!! All the best from California

@MatHall

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Monte, great name by the way!! Thank you so much for watching! You'll love the Danube. Especially if you love beautiful scenery, and great beer. Itll be an amazing trip to do with some friends!

I was stationed in Augsburg for nearly 4 years - good bike paths, friendly people, and lovely area - The Cathedrial in Ulm is a marvel, and will knacker your legs climbing up the narrow stairs to the towers...

Superb again!

Thanks for all that Mat. I’ll have a good look when I get home. I might have other questions 😉

Did this route about four years ago as part of my Manchester to Linz ride. Nice to be reminded of some of the views again. Macdonald's, Nah, I was more into stopping at the Eis cafes :)

@Jwnorton

3 жыл бұрын

McD's is cheating, and shorting yourself of the good bakeries and deli\metzgeri's that always seem to be side\side in German Towns. Took us about a year of living there, and following the locals, to realize that the Bakeri\Metzgeri combo was the way to travel, and way cheaper than fast food - tastier too...

@MatHall

3 жыл бұрын

Yeh it absolutely was and we felt so naughty! But every now and then it was fun as something different. We certainly always ate local apart from this. Loved the local food... very good cycle calories too in German food!!❤❤

i have fallen in love with you guys and your journey through a massive binge, following my interest of cycling the austrian danube. Your videos are great, what an accomplishment!! All that cycling must have beenp bloody tough! I am interested in your planning of the trip?

@MatHall

5 жыл бұрын

Wow that's such an amazing comment! Thank you! We're very proud of getting out there and doing it and in fact the planning was almost as fun!!! We were both allowed 4 months sabbatical unpaid leave from work, and looked at a very rough estimate total km and how far we could go. It turned out Istanbul was about the ideal length and gave us plenty of emergency time or 'we're being slow' time! We ended up arriving 2 weeks early and had holiday time in Turkey :) Then we looked at routes and we quickly found the eurovelo options. We wanted to keep it scenic and pass by plenty of towns too so this was ideal. We wanted to start up in the cycling heaven that is The Netherlands so we did that first then reached the eurovelo into germany and down to Basel. Then as we reached Romania we decided to hit the mountains in eurovelo 13 instead and it was much more scenic. Then made it up as we went along to Istanbul. Kit wise we did a few day test rides and realised what we needed thru other KZread videos. The best thing we did was buy a great MSR tent and a reliable tires. Only 1 puncture between us in 5500km! Harriet's blog is really useful too.. find the link in our Instagram bio @monteandkomodo :)

@YanaNova

5 жыл бұрын

Hey you guys, thank you for this long explanation, super exciting, @Mat Hall !

Applied for the Transcontinental Race next year, I think I am going to have to incorporate some of the path into the Route as I head from Roubaix in France to Graz in Austria. From the video the surface of the path looks fine for road tyres.

@MatHall

4 жыл бұрын

Oh wow that will be some race!! Yes apart from some cobbles in the villages on the Danube it was mostly very good road. We just had usual touring bike tyres and it was fine but in a race you can easily skip some parts and take the fast roads. Sounds fantastic. Will anyone film it??! Or are there ways I can follow?

@BikepackingAdventures

4 жыл бұрын

@@MatHall there will be plenty of media coverage on KZread from riders and others - vlog each day or Instagram etc.. There is a new phenomenon called Dot Watching with these ultra long distance events; everyone is tracked by satellite and you can see everyone's progress across Europe. Yeah I was looking on Komoot - very windy route. Until I know whether I have been selected or not (mid-Jan) I shall hold back on route planning. I think either way I'd like to tour the EuroVelo 6 another year- must have been quite an experience for you both!?

Hi, my question is that bicycle path is entire (non-stop) from Donaeuschingen till Budapest? Did they build it all the way long, or sometimes I have to go out from the bike way and change to the normal... car way? THANKS

@MatHall

5 жыл бұрын

Hi! It is mostly signposted to Budapest but even still is sometimes on road. We had no trouble though! You have to keep looking for the Eurovelo signs. A lot of Hungary is on roads but the first few days from Gyor is a wonderful cycle path :)

@emeseszekely2024

5 жыл бұрын

@@MatHall thank you for your quick answer, do you think is it safe for a 24 y old women to go alone? And do you know anything about from Budapest until the Black Sea?

@emeseszekely2024

5 жыл бұрын

And btw, when it is on road... it is very traffic, are there a lot of cars? I guess no highways:D

@MatHall

5 жыл бұрын

@@emeseszekely2024 totally! People were so friendly and actually we met more solo girls than solo boys. After Budapest, that's when it got very quiet and we only saw one or two other cyclists and it was much more remote. Germany to Budapest had lots of cyclists :)

@MatHall

5 жыл бұрын

@@emeseszekely2024 and yes we cycled to the black sea. More information in my videos :) we reached black sea then Istanbul. Decided it was more interesting and safer to go to Bulgaria and Macedonia then Greece and Turkey on eurovelo 13 but this is not signposted. Follow us on Instagram at monteandkomodo and check out our blog this has lots more information on our route and message me on there if you like! You should do it :)

Hi Mat, I see the Danube guide, but cant see one for the Eurovelo15 where you started, was it a a different book for that stretch? Thanks

@MatHall

5 жыл бұрын

Hi! The Rhine Cycle Route for Eurovelo 15 was by Cicerone books too.. but only written from source to mouth so we just followed it backwards pretty much from the north sea. A little tricky but had no problem! :)

Thank you for the video! May i ask what your average speed was, and how many kilometers you rode on average every day? Thank you! (I plan to go Passau - Budapest in late summer)

@MatHall

4 жыл бұрын

Hi! Sorry for the delayed reply! Firstly thanks for watching :) So the average was around 55km a day. Nice a casual! Some days 100 but most 60 to 70. In Bulgaria and Macedonia in the mountains more like 30 or 40!

@MatHall

4 жыл бұрын

Passau to Budapest was one of our favourites. Such easy flat cycling and friendly people and super cheap tasty food!

@Klassenfeind

4 жыл бұрын

@@MatHall thanks a lot for your answer 😁

Hi, I was wondering if you could kindly share your GPX tracks with us mortals here in this Planet, please? I thank you in advance. Stay safe always. Cheers…

Can you list the books that you used for your trip please? Thanks a lot

@MatHall

5 жыл бұрын

Stewart Taylor , no worries, I will do that tonight :) So worth getting. Made life a lot easier...!

@MatHall

5 жыл бұрын

Stewart Taylor Eurovelo 13 map (guidance wasn't great but it still really helped having the map) www.esterbauer.com/db_detail.php?buecher_code=ICT3-E

@MatHall

5 жыл бұрын

Stewart Taylor EUROVELO 15 and 6 were the Cicerone guides which were perfection. www.cicerone.co.uk/the-danube-cycleway-volume-1

@MatHall

5 жыл бұрын

Stewart Taylor and lastly, our Blog has lots of detail, if interested! Link to this on our Instagram Bio or here monteandkomodo.wordpress.com

You didn't answer the question - How long is an elephant pregnant for??? I googled it. 95 weeks. You're welcome. :)

@MatHall

4 жыл бұрын

Ha ah thanks!! Jesus that's long. Maybe if human females kept then in for that long, our babies would come out walking already too? Pah! Thank you for watching Geoff 😁

I’m a snorer 😴 sorry man

Snoring !!!! always take ear plus

@MatHall

4 жыл бұрын

Ha yes I learnt this one the hard way...! Found some perfect wax ones in austria somewhere which really was a game changer..!