Very glad I split that journey up. Cycling all the way here would have truly been a nightmare.
Garmin tells me my body battery is low and my sleep quality is bad. The Transfagarasan Highway was a challenging ride. I would expect to take it relatively easy for the following few days. I guess sometimes you get tempted to push yourself too far.
Mountain roads
Well, more in the foothills really. After yesterday’s lorries blowing soot in my face, I decided to take a further route. A more hilly route, but a route with more nature and less traffic.
Stops were in little village café along the way. It was pretty charming really. Mountains and forests as a backdrop.
I’m limited by the number of photos I can take as the pixel’s camera has been rendered useless.
Each time I want to take a picture, I have to pull the tablet out of the pannier.
As you can imagine, this isn’t something I want to be doing very often.
I’ve taken two pictures, one with the the tablet, the other with the pixel. See if you can spot the difference.
Water inside the phone is not a good thing. Today, I expect more rain. Ive prepared by putting all my gear in bags. It won’t get wet. The tablet should be able to fend for itself, it’s got no cracks or damage as long as it doesn’t get submerged, it should be fine.
My phone, I’m going to have to take special care of. It will go into my bags if there is heavy rain. That will mean I’ll have to stop to navigate. If I’m correct today is a simple route.
One road up into the hills and back down again. 65 miles.
Targu Jiu
Was a funny old place. Imagine you got a few thousand Irish travellers and told them to start a city, that would be Targu Jiu. As I was cycling in, I thought it was traveller houses in the neighbourhoods on the way in. I was wrong. It’s basically a traveller town. There’s horses outside the houses along with gold plated MR2’s and women in leopard skin prints overseeing children and animals playing on the streets.
It’s a Roma city.
It’s not really my kind of place. I didn’t feel comfortable. Although I initially planned to stay 2 nights, as it has some UNESCO sites. I’m not going to bother. I’m going to head back into the hills.
Trip details
Until next time.
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Lovely scenery….what a beautiful country. So disappointing when a place is below expectations. Hope you find somewhere nice to stay. Garmin is always mean with it’s sleep score. I don’t always take it as gospel usually judge by how I feel when I wake up. Happy cycling. X