{"id":11801,"date":"2013-10-20T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T19:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=11801"},"modified":"2013-10-20T20:06:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T19:06:11","slug":"the-roller-coaster-ride-from-giurgiu-to-silistra-on-the-danube-less-bike-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=11801","title":{"rendered":"The roller coaster ride from Giurgiu to Silistra on The Danube-less bike trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6622.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11803\" alt=\"1-IMG_6622\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6622-275x300.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>After my Romanian regulation cheese omelette for breakfast \u00a0I departed leaving the smelly bathroom behind. Fortunately, even though Romania is Catholic, all the shops were open so I was able to stock up with choc bars &amp; fruit. Isn&#8217;t it strange how France had a revolution to remove priests from power but to this day keep their shops closed on Sunday&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The first stretch was the dual carriageway to Bucharest which is actually better &amp; safer riding than the country roads, the lanes are wider. After leaving the highway it was back onto a country road that was more like a roller coaster with its 10% ascents\/descents. Wending my way through many small villages, were interestingly I was getting greeted with Hola rather than hello, which made me smile after <a href=\"http:\/\/colindavies.blogspot.com\/2013\/10\/corruption-profanity-brothel-roads.html\">Colin&#8217;s post yesterday<\/a> about Romanian prostitutes in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The villages are now definitely more prosperous (only 60 k m from Bucharest) no garbage on the outskirts, fewer horse &amp; carts and even a few quad bikes today. Although the hoses are virtually one continual ribbon development. Although be warned straying from the road can lead you into serious mud &amp; mess.<\/p>\n<p>No cafes today so had to settle for beer &amp; crisps the crisps were 2 lei (40p) and 500ml of beer 3 lei (60p) which was pretty good, you can imagine the moans when I hit The Haymakers again \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Finally saw The Danube for the first time today on the ferry over to Silistra which is just in Bulgaria. AroundMe found the Danube Hotel &amp; Resorts for me, which is just as well as it was getting cold &amp; dark when I arrived having biked just shy of 100 miles.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the Strava (Excludes the ferry and he bit in Bulgaria) and a f<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111882957452855371846\/albums\/5936883277853976337\">ew photos here<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11802\" alt=\"Strava_Ride___Giorgio_to_ferry_Silistra\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Strava_Ride___Giorgio_to_ferry_Silistra-1024x457.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Strava_Ride___Giorgio_to_ferry_Silistra-1024x457.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Strava_Ride___Giorgio_to_ferry_Silistra-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Strava_Ride___Giorgio_to_ferry_Silistra-768x343.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Strava_Ride___Giorgio_to_ferry_Silistra.jpg 1149w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my Romanian regulation cheese omelette for breakfast \u00a0I departed leaving the smelly bathroom behind. Fortunately, even though Romania is Catholic, all the shops were open so I was able to stock up with choc bars &amp; fruit. Isn&#8217;t it strange how France had a revolution to remove priests from power but to this day [&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-11801","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\/11801","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=11801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}