Today's route included walking along an embankment beside a drainage canal, a long road section with high speed traffic and a pleasant walk on a track across the "prairie" plus three villages.
First I had a breakfast of "langos" and coffee from a stall at the edge of Berettyoujfalu. Langos is a fried dough, slightly salty. Perhaps because I did not eat much yesterday, the langos tasted delicious.
Leaving town the Kektura followed a long section of cycle path along one of the embankments enclosing the Berettyo river (which also acts as a drainage canal). Willows and other vegetation lined the banks of the river, but the sides of the embankments were clothed in grass being cropped by flocks of sheep guided by their shepherds (I saw three of them). The odd heron and duck flew off as I walked along. In the villages that followed the storks nests were all empty unlike on my trip in June and July when parents were tending young storks.
After the last village a cemetery, overgrown by shrubs obscuring the grave memorials, included some unusual wooden grave markers. Then a long length of road to walk along. There was not much traffic but as the road was so straight, dividing the flat "puszta" (or plain), cars were passing me at high speed and the occasional lorry created powerful side winds on a day that had turned quite windy.
Overcast skies covered the extensive grasslands that I turned onto along a small road and then a farm track. The road led to a gas gathering station although the nearby gas wells looked rusty and out of action. Cattle were grouped together at different places on the puszta with someone looking after them. I noticed several flocks of birds, some wheeling in the sky, some on the ground. It seemed a time of year when birds congregated together.
It was a lengthy walk today but I finally reached Sylvia Vendeghaz in Korosszakal for a welcome shower, meal and rest, thanks to the kindly family who own it.
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| Telegraph poles across the grassland |
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| Cycle track on the river embankment |
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| Long straight road (no cars here but when they appeared they were very fast) |
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