This touring lark has turned out to be harder work than we both envisaged. That doesn't mean we aren't enjoying it, but Donna did ask about a month ago for a good rest at some point in the near future - two or three weeks off the bike (and not climbing mountains instead). To put things into perspective I usually cycle around 5000 miles a year (with lots of rides over 100 miles and very hilly), Donna used to cycle 600 flattish miles a year but has clocked up 1000 ...

All those of you that have seen the odd photo / message posted on Facebook recently will already know that we have reached the 100 day mark, cycled on the moon and been hit by a car. We are okay, but Titty is in intensive care. More about the collision on the next blog, let's rewind first. Tuesday we finished day 100 at Novi Vinodloski, 12 countries visited (not 11, my mistake on Facebook), distance pedaled 2832 miles / 4557 Kms, ascent 132,000 feet / 40,000 metr...

We didn't stop at Rijeka, just passed through (thank goodness as it's a dump), just used it as a blog location to get our route line on the map going the right way before turning south. Great weather from Pula to Moscenicka Draga, but from 2.30 pm when we arrived to 3.30pm the temperature seemed to plummet. Most of the apartments we are booking are summer destinations and the heating is inadequate to warm them well, so we are streaming films whilst wrapped up in ...

I forgot to mention that when we reached Koper (our 3rd and final visit to Slovenia on this tour) Donna was convinced we were in the wrong place for the digs we booked as we went down a dodgy looking alley, but Gary the Garmins directions were correct. We were met by the apartment owner and his parents. They didn't live there or near but were all sitting inside awaiting our arrival. They showed us a wall outside where we could leave Titty and advised we locked he...