{"id":11791,"date":"2013-10-18T19:37:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T18:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=11791"},"modified":"2013-10-18T19:37:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T18:37:30","slug":"a-fast-day-on-the-danube-bike-trail-calafat-to-corabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=11791","title":{"rendered":"A fast day on the Danube bike trail &#8211; Calafat to Corabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11793\" alt=\"1-IMG_6500\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6500-300x258.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a>A great biking day especially with a gale force wind pushing me along, poor old boys coming the other day were walking their bikes. I did the 90 miles at an average speed of 15mph. Not bad for a loaded up touring bike ridden by a 66 year old \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Today makes it that I have now cycled 2,622 miles since leaving Cambridge 77 days ago. I&#8217;ve now completed about 87% of The Danube having ridden 2,472km of it in 24 cycling days.<\/p>\n<p>Today was on good roads with heavy traffic in only a few places, puzzlements today are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why when a big truck is passing me does it seem there is always another truck \u00a0coming in the opposite direction.<\/li>\n<li>Why do Romainians cross the road diagonally without looking.<\/li>\n<li>Why do kids think it is great to rush across the road to say hello and try and give me a high five. Making me swerve.<\/li>\n<li>Why does the character of the horse follow it&#8217;s owner.<\/li>\n<li>Why don&#8217;t shops (magazins) sell chocolate, nuts etc or small bakery items.<\/li>\n<li>Why do they go just outside the village limit to dump all their detrious especially plastic bottles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At least the dogs were fewer and friendlier today maybe that is due to the huge number of horse &amp; carts today.<\/p>\n<p>The weather gradually warmed up during the day but it sure is noticeably colder than a week ago. \u00a0No sign of The Danube at all today except at the start and when I turned into the Sucidava Hotel which is right on the waterfront in the port. \u00a0(By the way if 90 miles is too much for you there seemed to be a modern hotel at 60 miles in Bechet).<\/p>\n<p>Here is the Strava and <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111882957452855371846\/albums\/5936105920284580129\">pictures are here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11792\" alt=\"Strava_Ride___Calafat_to_Corabia\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Strava_Ride___Calafat_to_Corabia-1024x501.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Strava_Ride___Calafat_to_Corabia-1024x501.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Strava_Ride___Calafat_to_Corabia-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Strava_Ride___Calafat_to_Corabia-768x376.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Strava_Ride___Calafat_to_Corabia.jpg 1148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great biking day especially with a gale force wind pushing me along, poor old boys coming the other day were walking their bikes. I did the 90 miles at an average speed of 15mph. Not bad for a loaded up touring bike ridden by a 66 year old \ud83d\ude42 Today makes it that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-danube-bike-trail","category-travel-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}