Planning and preparation
Now three weeks from start it is a good time to asses how well I had prepared myself for this. \
Clearly I could have benefitted from a bit mor bicycling the last half year. The last days I have woken up at night. My muscles have been as strings on a violin and pain has performed a concerto on them. But there is a certain power in pain as well - when you know it is temporary and nothing dangerous.
Packing was very successfull. I have missed very few things. The pair of trousers that I thought would be the main pair to use when cycling were not really so good, the are too heavy and too difficult to dry, so I left them by our friends in Katowice and bought some training pants - never wore such pants before, guess I am a bit snobbish in my own way.
I had three t-shirts. One silk, one cotton (organic) and one merino wool. Must say the merino wool one comes out as the winner. The bike trousers that Kolbjorn and Kari gave me have really been good. Now my poor bottom is a bit tougher and I made some shorter trips without those padded trousers and it has also worked, but for the long haul it is really good. I still need to use the tent a bit more to justify carrying the extra load of tent and sleeping bag etc. (probably forty percent of the weight).
What I could have prepared better was basic information about the countries. To have a simple list of useful words (such as bicycle, how do you try to buy a ticket for your bicycle in the train station......) would have been helful and food language of course.Still I have actually been in all the three countries before and new some words. A bit more research on accommodation could have been useful.
Clearly I could have benefitted from a bit mor bicycling the last half year. The last days I have woken up at night. My muscles have been as strings on a violin and pain has performed a concerto on them. But there is a certain power in pain as well - when you know it is temporary and nothing dangerous.
Packing was very successfull. I have missed very few things. The pair of trousers that I thought would be the main pair to use when cycling were not really so good, the are too heavy and too difficult to dry, so I left them by our friends in Katowice and bought some training pants - never wore such pants before, guess I am a bit snobbish in my own way.
I had three t-shirts. One silk, one cotton (organic) and one merino wool. Must say the merino wool one comes out as the winner. The bike trousers that Kolbjorn and Kari gave me have really been good. Now my poor bottom is a bit tougher and I made some shorter trips without those padded trousers and it has also worked, but for the long haul it is really good. I still need to use the tent a bit more to justify carrying the extra load of tent and sleeping bag etc. (probably forty percent of the weight).
What I could have prepared better was basic information about the countries. To have a simple list of useful words (such as bicycle, how do you try to buy a ticket for your bicycle in the train station......) would have been helful and food language of course.Still I have actually been in all the three countries before and new some words. A bit more research on accommodation could have been useful.
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