Day 35 Sant Antioco – Villasimius 140 km

R.
Apr 6, 2022
3 min read

Change of sides. From the beautiful west coast "short" over to the east coast of Sardinia. Rain was announced so in the morning slipped into my gore-condom and off. The first 17 kilometers a beautiful bike path (video I can not upload today, unfortunately) then came the rain. Not really disturbing. When it rains I kind of retreat deep into myself and crank my kilometers down. In between I was on a 4-lane. With moderate traffic quite pleasant, because the cars have a second lane to keep distance and I can actually undisturbed cycle. Honestly, there would have been another way but after I realized that this is unstressful for me and the most direct way, I just stayed on the road. On the way I noticed I was looking very springy in the back again. After I was down from the 4 lane and the rain had subsided, I finally changed the rear wheel cover as I patched the lurker. The old one was so worn out. Then it continued on a rather heavily traveled road with no shoulder. That was rather unpleasant. Just as unpleasant as the sweat that ran down me. Meanwhile, the sun had asserted itself and it was relatively hot, so out of the gore-condom, sunscreen out. For the very first time I also noticed insects today, a fly flew into my eye. Around Cagliari the traffic was relatively heavy, at some point I thought to myself, you know this one, and yes here I drove past before, on the way to the electronics store, 2 days before. Today with already 90 km in the legs I found that quite annoying, the car traffic. Also had a small collision, I dodged a pothole in a narrow street and just at that moment a car overtook me from behind. Of course, there was not enough space and she stiffed me, nothing bad, was also not fast. However, of course I was to blame, according to her, because I dodged the pothole. "Distanza minima" I said only, here also no one adheres to the traffic rules. My deepest respect to the drivers who adhere to the speed limits. Behind a queue of aggressive tailgaters who overtake as fast as possible despite the ban on overtaking. Speed cameras are few, but they usually look like the place name sign pictured below. Smudged, smashed or even perforated. Bit later finally again cycle paths, not quite as well built, but the main thing away from the shoulder, had meanwhile no more nerves. When then still old stories came up in my head and wanted to spread in my thoughts, I knew I need ne break. Shadow, pastries and coffee. And lo and behold, after a 10 minute break, the world looks different again. I knew that I was on the road today rather longer and have therefore consistently allowed me every 25 kilometers a piece of fruit (banana). That is important, but at some point you are down with your energy, you have to counteract. As it then continued, the traffic then also eased again and I came back to the coast and from then on with bright sunshine the last 40 km. Those were again really beautiful and compensated for the heavy 50 km in the periphery of Cagliari. That was it, in this sense good night and Mr. Putin, please end their terrible war.