May 13 – We are back in Canada and I am in a tire shop in Calgary waiting for the work to be finished on some new tires for Ruby. Bound and determined to finish this blog!
We woke up to a foggy morning, so foggy it probably wouldn’t be safe to cycle. But our accommodations included breakfast, so we loaded up on carbs and barely adequate coffee and waited for the fog to burn off.
It was a beautiful day cycling, quiet roads with a variety of road surfaces.
And as always, there has to be sections of cobblestones 🙂
And even some gravel, just to make us appreciate the smooth pavement 🙂
The route had it’s ups & downs, as they always do, including down to cross a river on an old Roman bridge that’s still in use today!
There was a lot of varied scenery today. Most impressive was the use of local materials as fence posts. When your rocks are too big to stack them up nicely, barbed wire connecting big ones works!
When you have enough of them and they are kind of the same shape..
Occasionally, there are artistic leanings towards fence building.
We concluded the day with a wonderful uphill climb into another walled, castle town!
The place we had reserved had a beautiful private balcony to relax on and enjoy some beverages and snacks we picked up on the way into town.
It’s always interesting to see the contrast between the old and restored, the new, and the abandoned as we wandered around town looking for someplace to have dinner.
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