JL:
151 kilometers. 8 hours and 22 minutes
straight road, good weather and no wind. With all the hits roll in the big cities is not particularly pleasant for tourists cycle, but no further choice if you want to visit. Heavy traffic, high speed, multi-lane highways, drivers in a hurry, and feel that you have come to occupy the lowest level in the food pyramid: easy prey.
There are three aspects that are key to the safety of the cyclist, road conditions, tuning the bike and driver behavior. In general the Polish roads are eroded, patchy, bumpy and bored. They have absolutely no hard shoulder except for roads, and sometimes not even them. Not only that, but also the right end Rail is often dirt or gravel, so you can not get away too. Our tandem fitted with 25/28 inch wheels, was not well adapted to these conditions. Would have required a minimum thickness of 32 inches to go alone. Miraculously we had no breakdowns. On the behavior of drivers ... ... ... .., well although we know that would commit widespread ecological fallacy, our experience is no less real. The more basic needs to cover less sensitivity for the safety of others.
Today time has given us a break. The landscape under the sun has a different color. Not to mention the state of mind. When morale is low you feel like tandem cut in half and each go his own way at their own pace, "do not move much, to see if we are very still," biked to win or what, today pedaling just me or what, do not stop me again, "but if you piss half an hour ago," do not change much development you kill me, "this saddle is crap, I told you what we changed "" look like the raincoat itself that creek, we should have bought the expensive. "
We like the character Superman, the "Sun" gives us energy. With inner strength while and the comments are different: "Are you going good or you fancy a break buddy?", "You want a handoff up ahead?", "Do you have enough water or do you step?", "good lying, what well you have managed these curves, "comes this guy who made a bull."
In Poland, eat well and cheaply. The hotel is generally very inexpensive. An example: medium quality rural accommodation, double room with dinner and breakfast for hungry humans as Steppenwolves € 80 approx., Including a 22% VAT. The clothing also seems fairly inexpensive, and public transportation. But gasoline is more expensive than in Spain, taxis are very cheap to us, and brand perfume or items not far from our prices. Well this is how little we have seen, our day to day is quite military.
What is important today, but the route was to reach Berlin . On our trip is more or less the Ecuador and is also a city that wanted to know. In Berlin, a rest day we have to make about Paco. We'll take you stick an overview, not dependent on us. Addition we have to wash all clothing in the suitcase. The only thing that remains clear is that we wear underwear. We carry the same pants for 17 days. They are more chafed than John Wayne leggings. We will also try to make us a leg massage to see if we recover a bit, as they are dry, hard and painful. I do not know if it will give us time around, but we must try.
This will be the last big city we'll play. We do lose a lot of time and the roads are too dangerous for our "vehicle longo. To Castellón try to map a route that leads from a rural and cross small villages therefore rule out going to Paris . I think we will win well over time.
We arrived in Berlin at a good time, shortly after lunch, thanks to the early start and the forces that gave us the excitement of coming to this city. Upon arrival we left the cart and bags at the hotel and we have to roll with the tandem of the main avenues in Berlin. One of them have traveled to 47 miles per hour on the plain. What a waste of power! We have been guided by the illusion and boosted by a rush of adrenaline. Luckily plays break.
Photos, talks with American, French, English and German course. Well here I put some pictures.
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