wind came from the front, rain from the back, but it didn’t hit me too bad 
crowded place! 
I cannot do without that… 
looks like we’re in for nasty weather 
At night it
had started raining from time to time. At 4:30 I had to get out of the tent.
That is always the problem of cheese for me: After eating cheese, I get
thirsty. After getting thirsty, I drink. After drinking I must go out of the
tent or room (if it is not a bathroom). After getting out at 4:30, I will not
sleep too much. But it was too dark, and I didn’t want to disturb my neighbours
when I try to pack up and leave so early.
When it was getting brighter, it was again raining, but not too strong, so I
could get most of the things packed before they were wet. Only the top and the footprint
were wet, but I think they will survive until I need them again and until I
finally can dry them in Sydney.
The sky was very dark and strange was that the strong wind came from the front
and the bad weather from the back. I could ride 2,5 hours without getting wet,
then I needed a breakfast and the rain caught me. It was not to heavy and the
good thing was that to my surprise the wind got less instead stronger. Around
noon there was no rain and no wind, and I could go much faster, so that my
calculation changed from 18:00 to 17:00, to 16:00 and in the end 15:00 for
arrival.
I lost time only, because I wanted to buy something for dessert with my host
family and because the GPS sent me to another place as final destination, I
don’t know why. So, I had to find my way the normal maps and additionally
climbed a hill just to go down on the other side (there was another road
avoiding that).
Monique awaited me, showed me a nice room and I could refresh myself and she
even washed my clothes. Later, John and their youngest daughter Nelly came
home, too and we had dinner. Nelly had been to Sweden for a year, including a
crazy 14 days trip through 11 European countries during holidays. The four
other siblings are all in other places, two of them musicians. We talked for a
while and then we made a special Bürgschafts-recording (reciting one verse with
the lines distributed between them in a “life” version). I had to leave them to
get my own stuff done a bit, that is, at least writing the diary, saving the
photos and videos of the last 2 days on the PC and making some tour changes
John and I had been talking about, and telling them to Mr.G. Doing this was
always hard before I found out about the wifi connection between him and my phone,
but today, it took more than 30 min trying, retrying, closing, starting again,
until I finalnow ly could transfer the data.
Then it was time to sleep, because John would go with me before 7, and before
that having breakfast and all things should be packed up.
I wonder if I manage to do the tour to Bannister with 2000m uphill and 270km in
total in two days or, like originally planned in three, but the idea is very
strong. Maybe not the legs….