Day 5 – Got out at Golenti (RO), for a 20 kilometer bike ride to the last station, Vidin (BG) – 10.10 hours

by wdwrd

Hot as it was I rode off with a filled water bottle and a broad rimmed hat and met a couple of Hoopoes, beautiful birds flying with me for a while. I then met this huge karavan of trucks (photo), waiting for the border. It was a queue of at least 10 kilometers of trucks in 38 degrees of blasting heat. After a few kilometers I stopped at a tomato and melon stand. I wanted two tomatoes, but he gave me five and a water melon. We shook hands and exchanged names. His’ was Auriel (photo). After a few more kilometers I took a  turn into a beach on the river banks of the Danube. Just some five hundred meters and a steep sloap away from truck hell, there was this green, lush swimmer paradise (photo)) Then the bridge (photo) and a great view over the Danube (photo) and arrived just in time for my connecting train in Vidin (BG).

“I am an artist from the Netherlands on a pelgrimage from Almere by train and Brompton to a mountainous residency in a tiny, tiny village in Bulgaria. My road signs are places of art, old trees and the people I meet. Could I meet you too?”

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