France-tastic

Aloha from Prague! Where we arrived puffed and red-faced after cycling the 200-odd kilometres from Dresden to get here. For those of you who aren't aware of this crazy scheme, we decided some time ago (obviously over too many glasses of Bordeaux) to spend the summer cycling 1500 km (as the crow flies, and so far we've learnt to add at least a third in getting lost/ windy roads/ looking for campgrounds factors) between Prague and Bucharest, via Krakow. The starting in Dresden part was a late decision after we couldn't find a train willing to take our bikes to Prague! So we started a couple of hundred kms earlier than planned, crossed our first border by bike (goodbye Germany and a language we can at least pretend to decipher, hello super cheap beer and completely incomprehensible menus -except for here in Prague where everyone speaks perfect english and all the menus are in at least 5 languages!), and tried out our super-daggy padded bike pants! Not as bad as they sound, mine went under a pair of normal shorts and so my shame was covered, and Alex's actually have the shape of normal shorts anyway.

So, in the meantime, we've eaten lots of delicious pork products and dumplings, drank lots of ridiculously cheap beer, drank enough wine to warn us off doing that again, already had to repair the tent, and braved cold camp site showers.

But so far we're still ready for more! So tomorrow we head off for Stage 2- Prague to Krakow. A much bigger challenge so we'll see how chirpy we sound then!