Although we were sad to leave Gabby’s guesthouse, the new place we’d moved into stunned us equally with their attentive service. Every time we walked down the stairs outside our room, our host would appear no matter how late, making sure that we didn’t need anything. Before he would go to bed each night, he […]
Actually, it was more like five hours, which is unfortunate, because the sign we read stated that the waterfall was an easy 45 minute hike in one direction. We figured we could pick it off in a couple of hours leaving us plenty of time to rest our legs. The trail we planned to follow […]
Though we’re enamored with our guesthouse for the night, we’ve got a problem. We cannot get the wifi to work for more than a couple of minutes at a time. Given that we’re stopped partly so that we can get some work done, we simply cannot stay. Sadly, after a blissful night of real […]
Hitting the road at 5:50, we laughed a bit about the ridiculousness of the night we’d just spent. I had so many bug bites I felt like I had hives, but at least we were outside breathing fresh cool air, moving too fast for any bugs to catch us. The bad news is that with […]
Though our hotel was pretty run down, our first glance at it had seemed livable. We’re really not that picky about where we stay, just so long as the room is clean, there is a place for bikes, and it has internet access. As the day wore on however, things started going downhill fast. The […]
I woke with the sun and happily noted a handful of interesting emails from home sitting in my inbox. Already feeling cheerful, I got Ben up and we began packing up from our lovely campsite filled with German and Dutch retirees. Have I mentioned how much I love organized camping? As we cleaned and repaired […]
Our usual attempts at getting out the door early were only somewhat successful. Though a wet tent didn’t slow us down, the hotel’s self serve breakfast certainly did (we really struggled to figure out what exactly we were supposed to eat) but we finally got out the door and headed for the bridge across the […]
Considering the sizable slope we’d pitched our tent on, and notwithstanding the fact that we were hiding out in someone’s field, we got a decent amount of sleep. We intended to head out with first light, however, we woke to the sound of yet another a morning thunderstorm. Antsy to get out of the field and onto […]
The last little while has been an odd change of pace for us. With all the hostels and trains we’ve been using, we’ve felt more like backpackers than cycle tourists. It has been really fun to be among so many other like-minded people, making new friends and enjoying novelties like an indoor common area and […]
More rain tapped on our tent as we slept, keeping at it into the morning. We waved off our new friends and joined up in the common room, listening to everyone try to make their plans for the day. Despite the fact that lots of us were planning to move on to somewhere new, almost […]
Though adjusting to cycle touring has been so much easier this round, the last few days have still found me feeling reluctance about what we’re doing. I get tired of never being able to order anything or ask anyone a question without playing charades or looking like a complete idiot because I don’t speak the […]
We were among the first people awake at the hostel this morning, almost surely thanks to the fact that we were some of the first to bed (at 12:30, which is ridiculously late for us!) We ate breakfast and then headed back out for a bit more city touring. We’d been told that a street […]