Monday 10th November 2014 - Wake with a really sore throat. Haven't been feeling 100% since leaving Sofia, but feel awful this morning.
Go for breakfast in the big fancy dining room. No buffet breakfast. Only order an option of menu. I go for French toast. I get pancakes?? The waitress assures me its French toast. Its clearly not. I can't be bothered with any hassle so just eat it.
Feel so grim.
Head off, stop at petrol station for water and take a couple of paracetamol. Can't hardly swallow, throat is so sore and dry.
Head off.
Main road now, not motorway. No hard shoulder.
Sweats, not exercise ones, sick sweats. All day. Urgh.
Back to riding the white line and lorries skimming me all day. Seems to take forever to do 40km.
Plovdiv - eat at McDonald's. Meant to be nice town, don't have time to go look. So not in a touristy mood either.
Back onto road. Hardly any stops today, just keep going. If I stop I reckon I may not start again.
Can't even drink or look around the road is that busy and dangerous.
Amused by all the little mice along the verge. They scurry away and disappear into their holes, which pock mark the length of dirt and grass along side the road, when I come past.
See lots of cabbage and dead animals.
Put lights on, it gets misty, then dark.
See a road from a petrol station into town, instead of the main road. Decide I'll use it when I get there now its dark, it'll be a safer way into Haskovo.
Turns out there's a motel beside the petrol station. Think it's a truckers place. Into the dark yard behind the building. A big dog barks over in dark corner, rattling the chains it's on each time. Clank up some metal steps in my cycle shoes to find a man in the bar, watching telly, in a plum of cigarette smoke, with the door locked.
Nice man, hardly any English. 35lev for room, bike comes in too!! Save any hassle riding round town in dark.
Throat still sore. Feel wick.
Day 73 - 10.11.14
Pazardzhik to Haskovo, Bulgaria
5h 34min cycling
109.8km
2892 calories
532 metres asc
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