CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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346 km from Debrecen to Debrecen, about 5 h 19 of riding. On the way it passes Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta, Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc, Tokaj Wine Region and back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Debrecen is the capital of the Great Hungarian Plain, a city of two hundred thousand people where the horizon is perfectly flat and the sky does most of the work. For centuries it was the stronghold of Hungarian Calvinism, so much so that it was nicknamed the Calvinist Rome, and its yellow Great Church, the largest Protestant church in the country, dominates the main square. It was here, in 1849, that Lajos Kossuth declared Hungary's independence from the Habsburgs, and for a short time Debrecen served as the capital of the revolution.
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Debrecen is where the day begins. Next is Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta.
The Hortobágy is Hungary's great grassland, the puszta, a flat, wide, open plain in the east of the country, and it is unlike anything else in central Europe. Nearly eight hundred square kilometres of it is protected as a national park, which was the first in Hungary, and it is on the World Heritage list too. What you see from the road is grass, sky, horizon, and then, if the light is right, something odd shimmering on the horizon, which locals will tell you is the fata morgana, a mirage that has fooled travellers for centuries.
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Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta comes up 34 km in. Next is Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta.
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67 km in you reach Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta. Next is Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc.
Some wine regions are famous for a grape. Tokaj is famous for rot. Here in north-eastern Hungary, where the volcanic Zemplén hills meet the Great Plain and the Bodrog flows into the Tisza, autumn mists from the rivers encourage noble rot on the grapes, shrivelling them and concentrating their sugar. The berries, picked one by one, become aszú, and the sweet wine made from them has been celebrated for centuries. A line attributed to Louis XIV calls it the wine of kings and the king of wines.
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Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc, about halfway. Next is Tokaj Wine Region.
Tokaj is the place where the world's first classified wine region was drawn on a map, in 1737, long before Burgundy or Bordeaux got round to the idea. The wine country of Tokaj-Hegyalja lies in the far north-east of Hungary, where the Zemplén hills, old volcanoes worn down into rounded cones, fall away to the plain at the meeting of the Tisza and Bodrog rivers. Tarcal and Tokaj sit at the foot of the slope, and the vines climb the south-facing hills above them, in a patchwork of terraces, stone walls and small plots.
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Tokaj Wine Region sits at 135 km, about halfway. Next is back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc.
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back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc comes up 168 km in. Next is back through Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta.
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202 km in you reach back through Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta. Next is back through Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta.
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back through Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta, late in the day. Next is Debrecen.
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The route ends here after 346 km.
Debrecen → Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta → Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landsc → back through Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta → Debrecen is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.