Last night I pulled off along way down a farm track to camp (but still not out of dog hearing range). When I got up in the morning I discovered I'd camped right next to a cemetery. They don't seem to bother enclosing them in these parts and are often in the middle of nowhere.I also had a new hazard on the road, thick freezing fog. I set about making myself and bike as hi-viz as possible.
I had set myself a target of reaching Belgrade midday on the 13th March so I needed to get some distance in today.
I enter the flat flood plain of the winding River Drava, which is the 4th largest tributary of the mighty Danube and here forms the border between Hungary and Croatia. It's like the fens in East Anglia, dark peaty soil and not a tree to be seen for miles. The fog lifts and I just put my head down and pedal.
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| Time passes slowly in this landscape |
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| At least the traffic's not to bad |
Mike, How are you finding calorie burn versus replenishment? Easy to find the right stuff to eat? Watch those mines!!
ReplyDeleteHi Mark, just arrived in Sofia and going to take a few days off here. Have cracked 4,000km but feel the need to relax for a bit. My Garmin says I'm using on average about 5,000 calories a day moving the bike. I've lost all my body fat (as far as I can tell) but don't seem to have the same appetite I had when I set off. I'm eating loads of bread, jam, chocolate, cake, milk, orange juice, oats, yoghurt, bananas, dried fruit. Probably a bit low on the protein side? I spend a fair amount of my non-pedaling day supermarket shopping, it's interesting to see the variations in stock between the different countries. Didn't even see a mine warning sign, which was fine by me, but was very much affected by the war damage still visible in Vukovar. Must go, there is an organised pub crawl of Sofia about to depart : )
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