My travels - Norway on Bike 1997 - 8.day

10.August 1997

At morning are sky blue without clouds, and everything looks better than yesterday. Only English fisherman has a problem to go cross pathway with our tents and he is speaking something under his mustache. Temperature is increasing, we pack all tents and continue. I feel more better and i want to bike today. One day without biking helped me very much. Peter give us headstart, he will come in us later. We all feel like contestants and we pedal in excellent temp. But we missed right turning and we must return back. Lucia has problem with leaving her bike and she finished in ditch near of route. Fortunately without any wounds. We found right turning in short time, but Peter is still not there. We must think what to do. We don't want to make some panic and we decided to stay near of some lake. Jaro is going to look after Peter with car. After a hour he left together with Peter. Peter at first made only some jokes from this story, but he looks happy now that we are all together and nobody lost. Temperature reaches 30 degree of Celsius and it is really hot. We thought about Corsica before, but it looks that here in Norway is also hot enough. We all continue. I have my good day and I bike without problem on head before others. From time to time I stop to eat some blackberries. After short uprise we turn to lake in mountains. It will be our camping place for today. Short time after our arriwal, some group from Polland arrived on motorbikes. They also want to stay here. We were afraid that we will not sleep well. But later it looks, that more problems with sleeping have they. We built tents and prepare some meal. It is late but ther is still enough light and we decided to make some walk. We bike to nearest tourist pathway point. We left our bikes near of small farm and we continue by foot. Route is marked with small colored sticks. Soon sticks dismissed and we must continue without them. I don't know if we reached some important or interesting tourist point, but before 11 PM we return down to place with our bikes. I have some problems with my glasses. Especially with "Heliovar" slides in them. They have special feature to darken in sun. But due to some for me unknown reason, they stay dark also there in dark. Sometimes it looks, that I must use my other sense to safely continue. After short rest we continue on bikes to our lake. I feel, that I need to wash myself, and I realized to do it in lake water. At first, water reach only my knees, but later I immerse all my body into water and I swim. Only here in Norway I become hardened my body under pressure. Later, Gabika and Olga, did the same. Before midnight we found some bottle with alcohol and we decided to make some fire. The bottle we empty soon and we realized to prepare some meal on fire. We didn't have no bacon neither sausages and we must improvise. As best solution we find out baked apples. They were really excellent and I can only recommend them. After singing some folk national songs we go to sleep. Motorcyclists had really bad night.

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