{"id":11820,"date":"2013-10-23T19:25:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T18:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=11820"},"modified":"2013-10-23T19:25:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T18:25:21","slug":"final-day-of-cycling-on-the-danube-bike-trail-constanta-to-tulcea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=11820","title":{"rendered":"Final day of cycling on The Danube Bike Trail &#8211; Constanta to Tulcea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was my 28th day of pedalling on\u00a0The Danube Bike Trail. \u00a0With today&#8217;s 93.5 miles it made my total mileage from Cambridge to be 2,996 miles of which 3,071km was on The Danube Bike Trail as outlined in Book1, \u00a0Book2, \u00a0Book3 &amp; mostly Book4 (I stayed in Romania) of the Bikeline series<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6726.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11825\" alt=\"1-IMG_6726\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6726-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>It started by going through all the ghost summer holiday towns all wrapped up for the winter. At Navodari you actually get a short &amp; bumpy stretch of real bike track \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0then onto long straight but hilly roads all well made &amp; pretty quiet \u00a0though pleasant enough villages. \u00a0You eventually hit the nightmare stretch of Highway 22 for 14km before turning off to Jurivloca. straight into a roaring headwind. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure quite why this area has such beautifully kept roads &amp; pavements. Must be to do with the all the wind farms I guess.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6754.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11826\" alt=\"1-IMG_6754\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6754-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6754-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6754-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6754.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It started to get late \u00a0by the time I reached Agighiol so I skipped the big detour and went straight to Tulcea, which is just as well as by the time I arrived it was pitch black &amp; my front light ran out of battery \ud83d\ude41 coupled with AroundMe failing, by sending me the long way to the hotel where I was told it was full! they were lying of course but I had already spotted T<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotelrex.ro\/\">he Hotel Rex<\/a> so that&#8217;s where I ended up pretty well exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t spotted any places to stay except maybe a pension around Enisala so it&#8217;s a pretty long day.<\/p>\n<p>All the time in Romania I haven&#8217;t seen ONE E6 cycleway or any navigation signs for The Danube bikeway<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my Strava and <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111882957452855371846\/albums\/5938042872291531537\">some pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11821\" alt=\"Strava_Ride___Constanta_to_Tulcea\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Strava_Ride___Constanta_to_Tulcea-1024x484.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"295\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was my 28th day of pedalling on\u00a0The Danube Bike Trail. \u00a0With today&#8217;s 93.5 miles it made my total mileage from Cambridge to be 2,996 miles of which 3,071km was on The Danube Bike Trail as outlined in Book1, \u00a0Book2, \u00a0Book3 &amp; mostly Book4 (I stayed in Romania) of the Bikeline series It started by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-danube-bike-trail","category-travel-blog","category-travel-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11820","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=11820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}