A pleasant evening was had at our hotel during which Miles made full use of the internerd facilities and Tracey enjoyed Eurosport. Later we both reported in to our respective mission controls in the UK - all seemed well enough at home.
During breakfast we were somewhat bemused when the Polish newscaster was replaced with a humping and groaning couple on the 52" plasma (that's a telly BTW not a porn star vital statistic)! Seems we had a bit of porn 'breakthrough' which would have made Tracey choke on her cornflakes if she had any.
After calming down, we left around 09:00, planning to reach the unfortunately named Polish town of Kock, approx. 60 miles away.
Clearly, our choice of destination had all to do with it's name and we have scoured our maps to plan similar visits to the towns of Tits, Bum and Fanny! Incidentally, we had already tucked away the town of 'Arce', whilst in Latvia. Double points to us.
Dry weather greeted us though rather overcast and very humid. The other major positive today was the reduction in the volume of traffic. This meant we could relax a little and enjoy both the cycling and the scenery.
We belted along Route 19 due south. After a couple of hours or so, we stopped at a roadside services for pop and choccy then later at a café for a coffee and more choccy.
Exchanged pleasantries with a group of Polish HGV drivers who were interested in our endeavours. We managed to conceal the fact that we now consider this breed to be on a par with the anti-Christ!
More cycling followed and we reached Kock around 15:00. We were disappointed to find another 'One Whore Town' that didn't seem to offer accommodation.
We opted to carry on and see what popped up.
A couple of miles later, what popped up on our radar was a very fancy restaurant indeed. We screeched Disharmony II to a halt and the mother of all CAKE fests followed. Fantastic quality CAKE later, we were ready to carry on.
During our feast, we'd been given some info on places to stay in the coming towns and villages.
We carried on, inspected the first recommendation and found it wanting so carried on some more.
This process was repeated a couple of more times until we decided our best bet would be to make for the next 'mega' city; Lublin.
Fuelled up at our recent stop, we got the hammer down and started to grind out the remaining 25 or so miles.
This plan came royally unstuck when 10 miles from our destination the heavens opened. Fortunately, we had just enough time to hide in a bus shelter but we still got soaked by all the standing water when we recommenced cycling.
A hurried plan review was carried out and we dived into the next hotel we passed. Luckily this looked both habitable and quite nice.
This view was somewhat tainted later during dinner when the snooty cow who was serving us decided being very rude was the Polish way to treat foreign guests. Well boo hoo to her!
All these shenanigans meant, today we put in a very respectable total of 91 miles and 345m of ascent. Total trip 1813 miles.
More Southerly ramblings to follow.
Back soon. Miles & Tracey.
