Tuesday January 6, 2015

Happy Birthday Adam.

It was a short ride in kilometres but a hard climbing day – we climbed a total of 11 metres!! Lol. It was very flat, but the road was rough most of the way.

We stopped to chat to two Brits who were here for three weeks and trying to get as much done as possible. After we had told them what we were doing, one asked if we were getting on with each other. We answered truthfully that for the most part we got on but there have been occasions, when we need our own space. That is why we don’t ride a tandem. He commented that they had only been cycling for three weeks and were doubting their friendship. They seemed to be getting on well today.

As we were coming into Playa Larga we met two more touring cyclists, this time from British Columbia. They had cycled the 105 kms from Varadero to Playa Larga and were having an easy day today cycling to Playa Giron. They were travelling really light, we weren’t even sure they were touring when we first saw them, they only had one pannier each carried on the back carrier. They had skinny road bikes.

We arrived in Playa Larga at 10:30 and settled into the casa. We looked at different options for our route going in to Havana. Tomorrow we will do another short day to Jaguey Grande with a stop in Australia to see the museum of the Bay of Pigs. We may have a long day after that, it will depend what the casa owner in Jaguey Grande can tell us about casas heading towards Havana.

After we found somewhere to eat (a little hole in the wall cafeteria) I updated the blog and checked on the Southern Tier route. It is about 3,000 miles (4,810 kms), about 4 months or so. I think I can order the maps without any problems, when we are in Havana I will order them.

Ralf went for a ride around the Town. It has about 48 casa, in a very small town. He discovered a nice restaurant, where we could have had dinner for less money than what we will pay in the casa but we had already told the casa owner we would eat here.