{"id":11807,"date":"2013-10-21T21:40:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T20:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=11807"},"modified":"2013-10-21T21:40:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T20:40:51","slug":"day-27-9n-the-danube-bike-trail-silistra-to-constanza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=11807","title":{"rendered":"Day 27 on The Danube Bike Trail &#8211; Silistra to Constanza &#038; The Black Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6672.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11809\" alt=\"Geoff &amp; bike at the Black Sea\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6672-300x280.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>Well I made it to the Black Sea at Constanza, 80 days after leaving Cambridge having cycled 2,900 miles or so in total. I had a 2 week break in Les Gets and another 2 weeks in Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>Today was real tough from getting a once over on the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schengen_Agreement\">Schengen Agreemen<\/a>t\u00a0by the Bulgarian border man (and no neither Romania or Bulgaria are in the\u00a0Schengen Agreement) \u00a0to deciding to go off road through Ostroy when the main road wasn&#8217;t busy at all. Then the real roller coaster (yesterday was a warm up) not helped by me trying to beat some club cyclists out for a bit of hill training. Culminating in the totally horrendous traffic from around Clocarila into Constanza. In fact it&#8217;s probably best to miss Contanza and cycle up the route from Ion Corvin to Cernavoda, unfortunately it isn&#8217;t clear there is any where to stay on that route. There looked to be a pension in Ion Corvin.<\/p>\n<p>Following on from Hola and prostitution yesterday, today it was all Hello&#8217;s although i did see a Spanish registered car with an elderly madam obviously striking a deal with the shop owner where I bought my lunchtime beer.Later on Highway 3 leading out of Murfatlar individual girls were out in force..<\/p>\n<p>After a full 10 seconds pondering \u00a0over the price I settled on staying at Ten Hotel with a view over the industrious port &amp; The Black Sea. Not sure what&#8217;s next in my trip apart from recovering here tomorrow and then riding North to see The Danube Delta.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s todays Strava and<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111882957452855371846\/albums\/5937259950864351121\"> a few photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11808\" alt=\"Strava_Ride___Silistra_to_Constanza\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Strava_Ride___Silistra_to_Constanza-1024x373.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I made it to the Black Sea at Constanza, 80 days after leaving Cambridge having cycled 2,900 miles or so in total. I had a 2 week break in Les Gets and another 2 weeks in Hungary. Today was real tough from getting a once over on the \u00a0Schengen Agreement\u00a0by the Bulgarian border man [&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-11807","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\/11807","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=11807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}