czwartek, 13 lipca 2017

The last sights of Cataluña

I have decided,today day 12 I will sleep in France,no matter what,I found Cerbére,small French village right after the frontier,thanks to the French couple from day 10, I was recommended an app "park4night" that tells you of possible camping&caravan spots poeple found, used and got away with.Also, they gave me a small swimming pool mattress, so I didn't worry about sleeping, also today I didn't choose the road next to the coast, no, it was all worthless way up and down and extra km,so mainland,stop at km90 in Girona for a sleep, drink,sitting down and etc...windy again...yay :/ but I saw so many fields today, road were full, some polish trucks,loads of French registration plates, LOADS OF NEDERLAND....seriously, so many :O what are they even doing here
Oh well, there are loads of good thing to say about Catalonians(?) They hung up around 20 signs of "welcome refugees" "Our gates are opened" next to those wooden boards with offers " I will give room for work in the field" rent a home in exchange for reforming it...SO NICE!! and people smile, some punks sat in front of a Mercadona in Girona and started asking for money or food, and guess what, people come out of market,smile at them,give them their groceries, engage a conversation!!!! And Mercadona stuff came out with food, and gave it to them,Amazing,in Poland this doesn't happen.Okay, so the rest and lunch is finished, time to go to France (so many mountains left, and the zigzags of roads ugh) but I am determined and refreshed, so France here I come.
I cried when I crossed the boarded, and it was very windy on the way(few times I almost fell off my bike, 30km before France, it's already full of french.
When I cross the boarder and made my way downwards(FINALLY!!!) to Cerbére, I found the parking lot with campers and divers just sleeping on top of their car with their suits drying on branches(left suit est Sur la branche-watch Eddie Izzard on french)and an elderly couple next to me are cutting tomatoes and lettuce(tears of joy by now) healthy people, yay.They offered me water and show a fountain to fill my bottles, they even re-park their car next to a one parked for sale,I would be safer and more protected from the wind.Sweeet!!! Later a younger couple in improvised fiat as a camper, parked, and I went to sleep with leftovers of tears, bottles full of water, smile on my face, and bloody wind still ruining my everything...
I don't know if it's the fatigue,or the wind, or the mosquitoes, but I slept bad, even though I was tired and wanted to, I couldn't shut my eyes...shame, but hey, 180km done,Spain finished and France prepare for bike Armageddon

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