Day 22

78 km, Senohraby-Tábor

We started again quite late, at noon, being sweaty even before sitting on the bikes. This climate is certainly killing us, although no question, this is the perfect weather for sunbathing and swimming in lakes. ;-)

The first 15 km were on small roads in the middle of nowhere, with heavy hills, and by 30 km we needed a break. We drunk cold water and Coke with ice ('led' in Czech), and had some raspberry and chocolate-banana pastries at a beautiful castle.

Later on, at the next stop, we found out that Isak was carrying a lot of food we bought days/weeks ago, and after getting rid of them, Isak could ride with 1 kg less weight. Nice feeling!

We saw quite a few dead animals on the roads. While in Scandinavia foxes were the main victims, here in Czech Republic and in Germany we saw several hedgehogs and mice, accompanied by dead birds.

The landscape did not make our journey much easier during the day, as we had to climb more and more hills on the way to Tabor. These hills were a lot easier than in the beginning, and in the last 30 km we only climbed 300 metres. With luggage and the early afternoon hills in our legs if felt a bit more though.

We arrived to Tabor happily that finally we could get an early rest (it was just 7 pm), but as we had to make a detour to the city centre because of closed roads, it was already late by the time we finished our dinner at an Indian restaurant. The restaurant we ate at, was next to a cafe Isak went to in his year 2000 cycling trip. That time, that cafe was full of people and dogs running around between the tables. Now it was quite empty. Perhaps it was just because it was Monday night this time.

We passed by three bicycle shops on the way back to the hotel; both our bikes needs to be fixed in the morning.