OUR LAST DAY OF CYCLING
Up and out at 07:00.
Boat leaves at 8. Releaved to find our bikes haven't been touched. We left them in the hotel open carpark. Warm bright morning as we pull into 7/11 to purchase breakfast.
On arrival at the ferry terminal purchased tickets and joined the queue to board. Still only 07:25, no boat insight.
Three lorries, six cars three motorbikes and our two bikes to load. Doesn't take five minutes. we go on board looking for a quite corner were we can have our breakfast and a snooze. No worries, there are only a hand ful of passengers. You do well to meet people as you walk around the decks. Smooth sunny crossing, nothing to look at.
Disembark dead on time 2 hour crossing. 50 miles today give or take. First twelve uphill out of the port. Couple of miles of flat countryside then35 miles of urbanisation. We take a break straight away, Linney wants to change his shorts. I take a look at my bike rear deraileur playing up. Shit iv'e broken the gear cable. What to do.
1, Change cable. (probably an hour, bar tape removed, gears may not be perfect)
2, Shorten chain (single speed)
3, Adjust deraileur to run on a higher gear (Use front deraileur, 3 gears)
Adjust deraileur in a couple of minutes and off we go. Linney leading (as always ) up the hill. Think he's forgotten I don't have all my gears. Only an hour, so press on up. Just happens to be a bright sunshiny day. Over the top then a nice descent into the town (petrochemical works). Soon it's time to eat again, picnic linney says park and lake ahead. So we pull in to Lawsons store for food. Out the store and into the park. Think reservoir with grass band around it. Not to worry it's clean and quite.
Spend the rest of the day riding through town, not bad we keep rolling using both the roads and Cyclepaths.
Book into hotel at 15:00.
Thats our cycling over, I for one will miss it. Seems sad that we are done, but Charlee and Camilla arrive tomorrow. That's exciting.
Pizza for dinner, fancied something more like home. Will be full on Japanese again tomorrow with the girls.