hm, strange, those long sleeves! there must be some secret purpose for them, just can’t remember which….
Because of a 120km ride lying ahead of me, I wanted to leave early and saw another morning mood at the beach. You just see the bungalow and some reflections…
Mr.G had a new feature to trigger me: He showed the time I was behind some fictive specification for a tour on a racing bike.
Whenever I was slower than 26km/h, (and I was slower most of the time, especially when I made a break), the counter added something to my delay. For me, the average speed was stressful enough, because when it was high, I wanted to keep it and when it was low, I wanted to increase it, and in both cases, it was painful to see the disastrous effect of eating delicious street-food to my average speed ?.
Today, I saw a temple under construction with a naked concrete Buddha.
For me in such cases always is interesting when the raw Buddha-formed mass of concrete becomes holy or adorable.
Similar to that question: Sometimes, I saw monks interacting with people. Sometimes it was a kind of blessing from monk to man or a kind of praying from man to monk today I saw again someone giving food to a monk and thereby taking of the shoes and making a humble bow. For me, most of those monks have the appearance of grumpy men in their midlife crisis, only a few had a kind of charisma.
For breakfast, I made a stop at booth, selling those colourful rice-pudding-pastries. (Now I know the name: Khanom Chan, thank you Pam!).
They suggested to take soja-milk as I didn’t want coffee and later, I got a tee for free. In the tee a lot of different herbs were swimming and I was not sure if I was supposed to eat/swallow them or not. I made a 50:50 solution.
The next stop was earlier than originally planned but I didn’t want to miss the bananas there. The woman didn’t want to sell me those I had chosen, she looked for better ones. And then I saw that she had been cutting a pineapple and asked if she would do that for me. So, I got the best pineapple so far, fresh, juicy, sweet, soft, aromatic. 10/10 points.
I don’t know what could be missing. I was thinking about taking a second one, but I had been eating 10min before and a pineapple is big enough. When I was leaving, the woman came with the bananas I had originally chosen and said “for free!”.
Indeed, I was not hungry for a while and stops where only because of some photos.
Something bike-related:
In the last days, I had noticed that my left wrist hurts more than the right one, and started to compare. So, I found out that I do most of the things with my right hand and during that time, my left hand must uphold double. And now, I take my drinking bottle only with the left hand and this makes a difference! Another unbalance is because of the mirror and concerns my back and my neck. I will not change the mirror from left to right, but I try to lock back sometimes over my right shoulder. These are small changes, but if you some it up over 6 or 7 hours, they have an effect.
My next food-stop was around 80km. I wanted to get a smoothie and was looking for a booth with a mixer or what it is called. I found one, but without any fruits, so I gave them the over ripe bananas and the lady made a banana milk for me.
She also was ok with using my own container (of the “fat-Sunday” cookies from Kuala Lumpur)
The photo has another reason:
There are many trucks with a big collection of mirrors, this one has “only” 8 or so, but I make a check-mark to “truck-mirrors”.
At 100km, I allowed myself a last stop to by fruits and a bottled juice that I had seen at some booths (today I looked up the word “booth” and hopefully use it correctly) before and didn’t want to miss them. The seller let me taste the juice with ice and it was good. The fruits were palmyra (again thank you, Pam!) and I don’t like that taste I am only fascinated by their texture. First it is like lychees but when you bite it, it is much more liquid.
After a first round of editing and uploading I made the usual evening round to see a bit of the town and to get food. Food was around the corner, a soup with something and rice in two plates. I put it on one plate to make the rice juicier. And then, I had the mission to get rid of the last fruits that I couldn’t eat up, so I looked around a bit longer and found two neighbouring shops. One owner said hello and smiled, and I thought she could be the right one. She only could offer strawberry smoothie, so I had a good excuse to hand out my last bananas and palmyras.
She was not totally convinced by that mixture and added some strawberries. The result was good and the problem with the palmyras was solved.
slippery when green!