Saturday 15 August 2015

The Tortoise

And today ... nothing of note happened !

Left Kastamonu trying to take a few photos on the way out, but rush hour and impatient Turkish drivers prevented that.

Straight back onto the dual carriageway with all good roads & great scenery, all the way to Trabzon.
Nice vista.

and again.

"Uh, hello, hello ... can u hear me... there must be something on the line"
 And then for 12 km, the GPS wanted to take a short cut, so I complied .... come across what I thought was dung in the road.  Then as I drew closer ....
Dung ?
 It was a wild tortoise crossing the road ..... slowly.  And a bus was fast approaching !
.... very slowly.
 So, I put the bike across the road, and made the bus go around.   Ah, that's my good deed for the day.

Then the road turned to gravel.

... then a brand new dual carriageway that followed the coast for 100km or so.

Tunnels galore.

In the evening, met up with Jeremy, and we planned a nice meal with a glass of wine ... oh, Muslim restaurant, I forgot.  OK, I'll try the 2014 Chateau neuf de Fanta than.  I heard it was a good year.


And I hate to say, but Jeremy brought the rain from England, so after 16 days of sunshine, I had to get the wet weather gear out for the morning.