Augustow 23 October
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Har nu kommit till Polen och ar i staden Augustow, som ar en trevlig turistisk stad. Campade for andra gangen forra natten, korde vilse och cyklande 83 km idag. Ar nu uppe i 564 km. Utrustningen borjar slitas. Ett par regnbyxor pajade idag och ena sidan av cykelvaskan ar inte riktigit bra.
Kari var och halsade pa i Druskininkai, en kurort. Det var sa mycket att gora innan jag akte att vi knappt hade nagon tid att prata med varandra. NU hade vi tva dagar for oss sjalva, vi at, badade massage bad, pratade promenerade, alskade och sov - pa ett mycket trevligt hotel for 70 Euro natten.
We also visited the museum in Grutos, where one person has collected statues and other memorablia of Stalin, Lenin and Lithuanian counterparts. Quit an amazing place honestly. Worth a visit.
Am now in Poland, more precisely in Augustow, which is a nature tourist, resort town in the North East of Poland. It is a pleasant place and has a lot of bars and shops. All bars seem to be in cellars, don't ask me why. I came here at three and spent some time washing clothes and also hanging my tent and sleeping bag for drying. The night before I camped, still on the Lithuanian side. It was wonderful weather when I left Druskinininkai at two when Kari left. it was really warm and no rain. I found a nice - perfect - spot for my tent just close to the Polish border. At night it started to rain and that continued up to lunch. So I had to pack in rain and set out on the road in the rain. The raod was sand/gravel and had become very soft by all the rain. It was hard to bike and also sand was sprayed into the chain and the cog wheels. I thought I could cross over to Poland somewhere, but I was wrong so in the end I had to go back to the main road to Lizdaiai and cross over to Senjy there. Senjy is also a nice town and I had a good meal there. After that I want to a petrol station to clean up the chain and oil it as it was making cracking sounds. From Senjy I continued the 43 k to Augustow,and that went very well, took only 2.5 hours. Guess I had wind in my back.
the 20th in the morning, while waiting for Kari, I went to the Belarussian border to see if I could get a one day visa to cross over to Poland that way, which would save about 90 km on my trip. Njet. But it was a nice ride, on the main road going there but on the way back on a bicycle road through a lovely pine forest.
Kari came at noon the 20th and left at noon the 22nd. We stayed at Hotel Violeta, a four star smaller hotel for 70 Euros per night. They had a very nice massage pool and saunas and a gym. We had good food, took walks, talked, bathed in the massage bath and made what you do when you are in a romantic place all relaxed.
After such pampering I was fit for hitting the road again.
The landscape on both sides of the border is pleasant. Forests and lakes, windling roads with reasonable traffic. On the Polish side there were more bars and hotels than on the Lithuanian side.
Tomorrow, I contiunue more or less straight South in Poland. Up to 564 km now and start to feel good biking. It didn't take more than three days and I completely stopped thinking about work things. The first week I still thought quite a lot about pain in the bottom, or knee, or that I was cold or some other nuicance. Gradually I spend less and less energy on those things, and hopefully my brain will be filled by something usefull - but I guess it is good to empty it first. I am still tobacco free which I already see as a great achievment.
Har nu kommit till Polen och ar i staden Augustow, som ar en trevlig turistisk stad. Campade for andra gangen forra natten, korde vilse och cyklande 83 km idag. Ar nu uppe i 564 km. Utrustningen borjar slitas. Ett par regnbyxor pajade idag och ena sidan av cykelvaskan ar inte riktigit bra.
Kari var och halsade pa i Druskininkai, en kurort. Det var sa mycket att gora innan jag akte att vi knappt hade nagon tid att prata med varandra. NU hade vi tva dagar for oss sjalva, vi at, badade massage bad, pratade promenerade, alskade och sov - pa ett mycket trevligt hotel for 70 Euro natten.
We also visited the museum in Grutos, where one person has collected statues and other memorablia of Stalin, Lenin and Lithuanian counterparts. Quit an amazing place honestly. Worth a visit.
Am now in Poland, more precisely in Augustow, which is a nature tourist, resort town in the North East of Poland. It is a pleasant place and has a lot of bars and shops. All bars seem to be in cellars, don't ask me why. I came here at three and spent some time washing clothes and also hanging my tent and sleeping bag for drying. The night before I camped, still on the Lithuanian side. It was wonderful weather when I left Druskinininkai at two when Kari left. it was really warm and no rain. I found a nice - perfect - spot for my tent just close to the Polish border. At night it started to rain and that continued up to lunch. So I had to pack in rain and set out on the road in the rain. The raod was sand/gravel and had become very soft by all the rain. It was hard to bike and also sand was sprayed into the chain and the cog wheels. I thought I could cross over to Poland somewhere, but I was wrong so in the end I had to go back to the main road to Lizdaiai and cross over to Senjy there. Senjy is also a nice town and I had a good meal there. After that I want to a petrol station to clean up the chain and oil it as it was making cracking sounds. From Senjy I continued the 43 k to Augustow,and that went very well, took only 2.5 hours. Guess I had wind in my back.
the 20th in the morning, while waiting for Kari, I went to the Belarussian border to see if I could get a one day visa to cross over to Poland that way, which would save about 90 km on my trip. Njet. But it was a nice ride, on the main road going there but on the way back on a bicycle road through a lovely pine forest.
Kari came at noon the 20th and left at noon the 22nd. We stayed at Hotel Violeta, a four star smaller hotel for 70 Euros per night. They had a very nice massage pool and saunas and a gym. We had good food, took walks, talked, bathed in the massage bath and made what you do when you are in a romantic place all relaxed.
After such pampering I was fit for hitting the road again.
The landscape on both sides of the border is pleasant. Forests and lakes, windling roads with reasonable traffic. On the Polish side there were more bars and hotels than on the Lithuanian side.
Tomorrow, I contiunue more or less straight South in Poland. Up to 564 km now and start to feel good biking. It didn't take more than three days and I completely stopped thinking about work things. The first week I still thought quite a lot about pain in the bottom, or knee, or that I was cold or some other nuicance. Gradually I spend less and less energy on those things, and hopefully my brain will be filled by something usefull - but I guess it is good to empty it first. I am still tobacco free which I already see as a great achievment.
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Postat av: Åke
Nu börjar Du bli filosofisk, det är nog trampandet som gör det. Gott att höra att kyla och regn inte är top-of-mind (som vi marknadsmänniskor som lever på att sälja sånt som folk egentligen inte behöver säger)och att det finns mat, och god mat. Jag tillbringade rätt mycket tid i Polen på 70-talet och kan fortfarande minnas de goda måltiderna, sopporna, grytorna, den inlagda svampen etc. Svampplockning är speciellt i slaviska länder, det ansågs under den gamla onda tiden vara det enda tillfälle då man fick vara ifred, inga partimänniskor som lade sig i och så. Polacker anser i allmänhet att endast de kan plocka svamp, till skillnad från ryssarna som plockar allt , så tar polackerna endast ätliga, goda svampar. Fan trot
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