Some of you know that I have a little guide book by Mike Wells, which I use to follow this route (as well as the Kamoot app)

On this stage, the author says “There is nothing of interest for the tourist or cyclist for 60kms”. He is right.

We did see a fire truck burning off grass.
And a few of the towns we went through today were looking very tidy compared to most we’ve past.

It’s basically the same scenery as the past few days. Lots of agricultural fields, sunflowers, wheat fields etc etc. We’ve spared you the endless videos and photos we’ve taken which look…. exactly like this

You can thank me later

There were more horse drawn carts, shepherds with their herds of goats and sheep. It was rural and, if you think that “rural” means “smells of dung”, in today’s case – you’re spot on.

We were lucky to have a nice strong tail wind for the whole 72kms today and we made it to our destination before midday. 💨💨

Where there was a Micky D’s.

Our lovely apartment is very small but we insisted that we share it with our bikes and our host who met us – helped bring them up the two flights of stairs.

We did some washing, then went out again to reload up on the calories we burnt today.

Giurgiu is completely covered in the communist style apartments – all done under Nikolai Ceausescu’s idea of systematisation.

Here you go Comrades. Enjoy.
This was probably one of the fancier apartment blocks back in the day.
Milhai Viteazul aka Michael the Brave. He was the Prince of Wallacia in the late 1500’s and was considered one of Romanias greatest national heroes.

We bought groceries to cook our own dinner. We’re a little over having to try and enjoy our meal while every person over the age of 14 smokes furiously around us.

Tomorrow will be our biggest day yet. 110kms to get to the next accommodation. (Hopefully we’ll have another tailwind:) 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

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    steveda7c18e9b6

    Good luck tomorrow guys !!
    We are feeling you with the smoking 🙃🙃
    Many Thanks

    Steve Carey

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