I knew it would happen sooner or later. Yesterday it was Wej and today it was my turn to have a day of complete lack of motivation. We expect to get days like these and hopefully we won’t have them on the same day. Yesteday Wej was riding behind me, staying silent and not commenting much on anything. Today I was behind Wej almost all the day and when I didn’t stare straight into her bright yellow vest, I looked at my cycle computer that kept showing that we had moved too short distance 🙁 .

We spent the morning hours riding around in downtown Lodz and even went into a shopping mall. That felt like a short relief to the hard work on E75.

After a few days of tailwind we today had headwind for the first time which probably had a part in me being a bit unmotivated. I know there will later be both headwind, rain, uphill and flat tyres on the same day, but that didn’t leave me any comfort today.

After a while we decided to cut the day short. We asked our almighty GPS where the closest hotel is. It turned out to be 671 meters away and we kindly asked the GPS to guide us there. While Wej was inside to check in I was waiting with the bikes outside the reception when two ladies came out. They started to point at our bikes and asked me many questions in Polish. Our conversation got nowhere beyond that they understood that we were on our way from Sweden to Thailand by bike. Then one of them took up here phone and called someone, talked for a minute and then handed over the phone to me.

The guy in the other end of the line spoke excellent english and presented himself as Mike. He said that he is a member of a local cycling club who will have a meeting at a pub today at 8 PM and he asked if we wanted to join in. I guess you readers by now know that we really want to meet people along the way, so we instantly said “thanks, we will join in” and now we will soon be on our way to meet the local riders of Piotrkow Tryb.