a beautiful day in poland
i will try to do 100 kilometers today to test my knee
i get to a very tiny village
where there's a warmshower
because i'm trying to do a longer day today i will stay on paved roads
it's gonna rain as well the trails are very messy it's been raining a while here they are very muddy
and yeah i will try to avoid that today because i'm trying to do this longer day
the knee is holding i increased
my sit post height
six times already and i think yeah
the original mistake was to lower the seat just that i didn't think it was
yeah i should have known better but i really thought that when i changed from the summer shoes
to the winter shoes i increased it too much maybe the the knee just got used to that
kind of movement so i put it back where it was now i will increase
the height another millimeter later today and then i'm back at the original height and yeah
hopefully we'll see tonight at the end of the longish day if if my knee is still holding
yesterday i didn't take any medication and in the night i could feel like the right knee
it wasn't painful but at the touch
it was pretty hot in comparison the left one was kinda cold the right one was hot but they didn't have any ice
yeah that's my plan for the day
looks like even in poland there are moose
the day is coming to an end
not an exciting day but it was good my knee doesn't hurt too much and i did 95 kilometers
on my
lithuanian time is
3 30. so the sunset is in
40 minutes
i only have like 15-20 minutes of of riding and then so i'll be there before the sunset
but on polish time it's 2:30 so the days are very short
i don't really like it, oh look there are some alpacas
hey hello buddy what's up you got lost
from bolivia from peru they took you to poland nice nice
it's an alpaca farm
look at those and some goats
sunset it's getting chilly
look forward to a hot tea
i'm off, new daily adventure last night was lovely
the most comfortable bed in a very very long time
it's windy, it's coldish
it will become more windy and more cold towards the end of the day
how lucky
i wonder if i can cross
maybe not, the train is coming, the trains slowed down too slow come on i could have crossed
my knee is starting to hurt a little bit
i will go slowly slowly stick to the paved road
but beautiful beautiful places
i'm surprised i thought it was gonna be a pretty boring this part of poland is
very very nice the forest are really nice
look at that maybe there is another bike travel
indeed there's another bike traveler i can spot the ortlieb panniers
from a mile away yeah that goes out of the window my, going slowly but surely
i'm trying to pick up the pace to see if i can catch this guy
it's a girl
hello
hi
you talk to me?
yeah
sorry I didnt... where are you from?
italy
you're from france yes i think i met you in novi sad in serbia, i was not in novi sad, i was in belgrade
three two years ago in 2019 i was not on my bike okay what's your name david and yours
because in 2019 in novi sad i was in a warmshower and
a girl from france stayed there one night and she looked like you a little
no it was not me
i go to hitler place
right back to my destination because i didn't want to pay three euros to enter to see a bunker where hitler was for a few months
i couldn't really care less what hitler did also it would have took like an hour probably
to visit the place to go around and i don't have an hour so back on my original route
a few kilometers detour it's okay it was a nice chat with this french girl
in my opinion they could burn the fucking thing down
i couldn't care less where hitler took a dump for three months and yeah look at this
i think there's lots of neonazi
sympathizers that they come to these places
I hate this weather condition
good morning poland
wet snow there was a bit more snow a few hours ago but i waited a little bit because
it was supposed to stop but it didn't stop it's turning to really really wet
so it's almost rain heavy let's go let's see i will say today's short day
I will get to a town and find a place to stay for the night
i think i should have used paved roads today
at some point i will go back to the paved road because this bit is okay but
i just did a section where it was really really muddy
i don't want to get stuck in the mud today to be honest
right i'm back on the paved road and now i'm gonna check my map
and stick to the paver road because the dirt roads are a bit too muddy
and i have problems with my with my back tire it's worn out and i lose grip as soon as i push a little bit
i did almost 11 000 kilometers with that tire it's it's in need of a replacement
let's do some navigation here and see if i can avoid the crossing on the dirt roads
you can tell by the snow on the trunks of the trees where the wind is from
it's coming from the north
as you can see the snow deposits on this side of the tree
it's very close to russia
poland in the north borders with russia or better there's a piece of
russia that is sandwiched between lithuania and poland it's an enclave
it's called kaliningrad it was a german town kalininigrad i think after the second world war
russia established a big military base there i mean a military port
when the russian union fell
in the 90s they never gave up on this piece of land
there you go there is a piece of russia in the center of europe
come and get your fucking dog
come and get your dog
get your job
come and get your dog
fucking hell you cannot leave them free
it's the sixth day since I left Kaunas
and my knee is quite good at the moment yesterday was still hurting
but today is the first day that i don't feel it much it's quite cold maybe that is helping but
i'm trying to do a longish day today it's almost 12 o'clock and i already did over 55 kilometers
i'm on the green velo
it's paved but it's really nice i really like this countryside of poland it's a mix of farms
forest and little little villages where you've seen nobody
there's no traffic it's sunday morning no traffic at all
and yeah i am trying to do a hundred kilometers today
so i still have about 45 kilometers to do and the sunset is gonna be in three hours and
a half more or less three hours and forty minutes i think it's quite dark it's very gray dull
wintery and cold temperature is about zero degrees celsius so it's freezing temperature
but enjoyable ride
i have been quite warm the whole ride only now it starts to
my feet and my hands starts to be a bit cold but
i think i can i can cycle a little bit faster i should warm up a little bit more
it's the first day with 98 kilometers close 100
I'll repost when I get to my host in Tolkmicko
holy fuck some people died here
i'm close i'm less than 10 kilometers away i think
let's finish a little little climb, little hill, very short
but i'm very pleased that today is the first day
that i almost didn't feel my knee so i think it's gonna heal