in pazardzhik

Sofia Istanbul Bike Connect

i am in pazardzhik at the moment, but will leave soon for my easy 2 hour ride to plovdiv, bulgaria's second largest city. this is after all day riding through the mountains yesterday, very beautiful but very strenous. i probably did 120 km or more, with lots of up, and got into paz. at about 10 pm.

but i stick to my last entry: more longer extra information soon! on the physical side of things, my seat is making me a bit sore, even a bit reddish hey, but my right knee is holding up (although i was nervous at one point), the bike is fine, and i feel a nice tiredness, like i have been biking for a looong time. and the bug bites. yesterday coming down from the mountain was my first feeling of absolute amazement at astounding enveleopment by

nature/priroda/termeszet/tabiat: left right left right left going downhill finally right left right and still more mountains and cliffs and along a river left right left right and great greenness left right left water gurgles left right sun shines left i meet another long distance biker right left right who says that even more beautiful places are found over yonder left right left i am wasting my time, he says, going to turkey, when right left, i could just stay in the rhodope mountains, right left right, this is all towards sundown, a glorious almost last stretch of the day, after some really difficult parts up hill now a beautiful glide down left right