Bratislava- Komarno, 23 July

Leaving Marina Bratislava at 8 am. We are keeping company with Hans and Thea through the Kanal Gabcikovo, 34 km, with an enormous lock near the end. We have read and been warned that this is a difficult and unpleasant trip if it is windy, and that it is difficult to tie up in the lock. But it all worked out well. The weather was fine, but it was a little bit boring.

Yacht Club Bratislava from sea side. 

 The Yachtclub Bratislava from land side. 

Elli waving good bye in the morning. 

Next stop Yachtclub Komarno, 100 km from Bratislava. 

Quite an uninteresting part of the river, which is very wide here. After the lock the river forms the border between Slovakia and Hungary. On the Hungarian side of the river there are 3 fortresses, the largest of their tule in Europe.

Yachtclub Komarno is run by Miro, a friend of Elli (Bratislava). Nearest supermarket, 2 km in one direction and centre of town 3 km in the other direction. The Yachtclub was situated in a quite arm of the river but close to a run down harbour and boat warf. Reminds one of uof previous governments! 

But the little town shows ambitions of improving. They have an area which they call Europa city where they have built  structures from different parts of Europe.

A street in Komarno.

Miro, the hafenmeister, has a restaurant about 400 m from the Yachtclub where we enjoyed a meal with Hans and Thea. 

Tomorrow we have to get up very early to reach a town Esztergom before 9 am where Carl has organised a telephone conference.