Breakfast in our very nice hotel reinforced the view we formed yesterday evening. The food was again very, very nice. Shame it's a bit of a one off though we could organise a few day rides around Bialystok! Somehow, this wouldn't help us towards reaching our goal in Greece.
It was also good fun watching all the be-suited business drones spouting corporate bullsh!t to each other whilst we sat loading calories into our 'calorie/forward motion conversion devices' (AKA gobs!).
Today's plan has us dispatching another 60 plus miles hopefully ending in the well known Siemiatyceze and not the Polish equivalent of A&E after being squashed by an over enthusiastic HGV driver.
Late start for us as we let the nice business people check out and get on their collective way to their important meetings without having to 'interface' with two tandem riding 'oiks'.
We rolled out of the hotel around 09:45 into Siemiatyceze's morning rush. We then did a couple of laps of the city through a navigational faux pas that would have Marco Polo turning in his grave.
Presently, we found ourselves on Route 19 and heading South once more.
There followed a sobering experience when we came across the immediate aftermath of a pedestrian/car altercation on a zebra crossing.
Thankfully, the only evidence left of what had gone on was the broken handle of a shopping basket, a bloody tissue and a large queue of traffic and police.
In the queue, we were able to leap frog all the hullabaloo and get ahead of most of it.
This must have doubly infuriated for the stuck drivers as they then had to overtake us on difficult roads adding more time to their already delayed journeys (he he).
Our customary morning CAKE stop was taken after an hour or so at a completely deserted roadside hotel. Good CAKE though....
We carried on the good work under leaden skies and the blustery wind had swung around to a full on side wind. Luckily this didn't slow us up too much though we did miss the turbo effect of yesterday's tail wind.
As the day passed the clouds attempted to release their contents but gave up after half an hour or so of half hearted feeble spotting.
An afternoon recharge in lolly form was taken at a roadside bar followed by whizzing legs that had us in Siemiatyceze in very short order.
Our efficient IT lady from yesterday had booked ahead for us today so we located the hotel and settled in to watch the TdeF animals dispatch the incredible Alpe du Huez stage.
That'll be us next week that will....in the Tatra's.
Total today a quieter 65 miles and 300m of ascent. Total trip 1722 miles.
More Southerly ramblings to follow.
Back soon. Miles & Tracey.
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