Distance: 93km
Total: 757km
The day started cloudy and slow as tried to give it time for laundry to dry, but in the end went to the pannier wet. Sun was however making a comeback, a furious one. Temperature rose over +30°C very early and staying still in sun was just bad plan of action.
Day started with 6km of quicksand road, had to push bike couple up hills as the road was just too soft. Also on top of that slow advance 2 cars and dust storm machines creating dust clouds for long time after they passed - and sweaty skin + dust clouds is sandy skin.
Soon noticed that the rear tyre was leaking slowly again and pumped it up couple times to reach some good place to repair it finally. The culprit of this, and very likely also the last flat was about centimeter long metallic spike, patched the tube while some locals watched and tried some communication which was to be little, but thanks for the moral support and 'good luck' wishes.
Rest of the day rolled nicely with couple harder up hills under the hot sun and with the uphill flies. A lot water was consumed I must say. In the end it was shorter than previous ones and was on this great campsite pretty early and had fun time swimming and chatting with 'neightbours'; German couple and surprisingly a Finnish couple - both couples with camper vans.
Tomorrow is going to be a break day from cycling, hope the spike of this heat wave also settles down. And BTW passed center of Europe, just by couple kilometers.
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