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It's not changing in my life, but if it wouldn't have happened, because I still would be a professional rider and still chasing my dream.

Yeah, now I'm looking for the Zero, and the 100 and Zero that will be two parts of my career, like before and after.

So it will be a really big turning point for me.

This year's Zero is the most important race in my life.

True to form, you've picked out the kind of Bohemian quarter of town for us to stay.

And we've already got a local, haven't we? The vegan restaurant has become our local where we've just had a nice lunch.

And a burger for those who are interested.

And as pointed out on Instagram last night, the terrace for this particular eatery is a, well, it looks to be a disused fruit and vegetable lottery, which is a huge,

it is, isn't it? Yeah, it's a nice, I went running this morning up to the big park, probably about 500 meters away from here.

I went a bit further than 500 meters in total, I should stress. And I got my first little vibe of Budapest, obviously a busy work day morning, everyone rushing off to work.

But I am yet to site my first example of the Giro di Calia being in town. I haven't seen anything that would tie the Grande Patenza to Budapest yet. So I'm going to go searching for that this afternoon.

Well, I'm last night, or yesterday in fact, I went to a bike themed wine bar and asked the owner how excited he was and I asked him to do a bike themed wine bar.

And I asked the owner how excited he was and I asked him to do a bike themed wine bar.

And I asked him to do a bike themed wine bar and ask him how excited he was about the Giro di Calia coming to Budapest. And he said the Giro di Calia, the Tour of Italy bike race, it's here in town, he'd never heard of it.

But that is not necessarily accurate reflection on the level of enthusiasm, the volume of the enthusiasm here, because I witnessed some last night in fact, or you witnessed some enthusiasm for a different sport, you were at the Ferreira Varras football match.

I was at the team presentation and team presentation yesterday took place in Heroes Square and there's no doubt who the home hero of this weekend is as far as the people in Budapest.

Certainly the cycling fans are concerned.

It's Wednesday night and we've made it to Budapest, we've made it to the team presentation.

I'm in Heroes Square, very famous monument in Budapest and the noise you can hear behind me is, well it's the Abbasin Finix team and Mathieu Randapult.

In particular being presented here, but just about 20 minutes ago there was an even bigger moment, even more mattress applause when the local hero Atilla Valta was presented here.

And the beautiful sunshine now and after storms earlier in the day.

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