The best conditions for making some miles – boring flat landscape – giant corn fields – straight roads, wiind from the back and me, i have 6 holes in my rear tire. I could not find a reason for the wholes, they where just there. What a day, it brought me to my borders, I spent the whole day next to a quite busy road with one patch missing – I had 5, needed 6 ;-(
I tried all tricks I knew, and in the end made a knot into the tube where the last hole was and cycled slowly to the next town, where i found a closed bike shop. By that time i was out of my mind – can not really explain, but was full of fear. Nobody did anything bad to me, but the only thing i wanted to do was to hide myself. It was hard to talk to people, I was not able to ask anyone for support and only calmed down, when I had found a hidden place next to the channel.
Next day the sun was shining again – I went to the bikeshop, got a new tire and 2 tubes and found, that I had reached the Camino de Santiago. Whow, how many people take it, amazing, who many spend their holydays walking! I did not have to know the route at all, just followed the snake of people coming towards me. Quite a lot of cyclist travellers as well. I was thinking about the fear attack i experienced yesterday – what was that about ?
