Today we have a wonderful sunshine. The temperature is probably around a few degrees above zero and the sun is working hard to clear the roads for us. I have never known that Wej has been interested in snow trucks before, but yesterday evening she noticed every time one of them drove past our little hotel.

Yesterday one of the staff of this hotel told us that the road would be bad today too and he advised us to wait another day here and let the sun and the snow trucks clear the roads first. We then decided to not decide anything about cycling or resting until we had seen how the conditions were this morning.

Wej on a walk in the sunshine to inspect the road

This morning we were told that the bigger road we plan to go on some 6 km from here is OK now, but the local road to that bigger road isn’t cleared yet. Our experience tells us that what a non-cyclist think is a not rideable road often is good enough to ride on for us.

Since it was a nice sunshine and pleasant temperature we went for a walk up the hill to take a look at the road that was supposed to be bad. As far as we could see it looked OK, but we only walked some 1.5 km of the 6 km claimed to be bad so there might very well be problems further on.
It was already after lunch and we were a bit lazy so we decided to stay the night here and continue tomorrow.

The road doesn’t look too bad.

We have used the day to do laundry, write e-mails and check information about the route the coming week. Tonight we will watch some movie on our computer and have a nice and relaxed Saturday night.

Enjoying sunshine, coffee and reading on the ipad.

This journey is between Göteborg and Bangkok, but it is hard to understand that we are on the way there so we have split up the entire trip in a couple of sections. First section is from Göteborg to Istanbul and this section is divided into three parts. First part was to Krakow, next part is to Bucharest and the third part is to Istanbul.

From here it is some 800 really hilly kilometers to go to Bucharest where we are invited to stay with staff at the Thai Embassy to Romania. It will be fun to see Thai people again, but it is a little bit of a rush since they are expecting other guests and we need to get there and leave before they come. This snow storm did certainly not make it easier to reach Bucharest in time.