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Day 14.75: All the way

I had to make it before I slept again, I just had to. I only had about 300km to go, and I could easily do that in a day. At least, I should have been easily able to do that in a day. The only problem was, it was windy. I’d stopped behind a big hedge the night before and was in a pretty sheltered place, but still I could hear the wind before I even opened my bivy. I lay still and listened for a moment, but that didn’t seem to help the situation, so I gave up and opened my bivy.

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Day 14: I really hoped I’d be faster than that!

I woke up to a light rain. No problem – it was the same light rain I had gone to sleep to, and I had found a pretty good spot, well sheltered under some trees. In fact as the sky got brighter and I started to see more of what was around me I realised I could have been much better sheltered by an abandoned building that must have been just outside my lights the night before, but no matter. I shook my bivy dry but didn’t worry too much about having some damp sleeping gear. After all, I was so close to the finish now that maybe I wouldn’t even need to use it again. Right?

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Day 4 – Sore in Serbia

There had been some discussion at CP2 about routes through Serbia. Several people said that they were going north around Belgrade because they didn’t want to get slowed down. I could see their point, but my route took me straight through the middle. I was basically going to ride north until I hit the Danube, and then follow it through the city before heading off towards Croatia.

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