Banská Bystrica and more

We are enjoying the hospitality of a petrol station again while writing is being born. So far today (half past 1) we have had to deal with some very hard and long climbs, only slightly offset by the descents – which have been short rather than long. Fortunately the brakes are holding, sometimes glowing, sometimes just lukewarm. We’ll keep cycling, Brno is an intermediate destination, we definitely want to cross the border by the end of today, and we still have only ideas about the rest of the route, but we can dedicate Monday to the road.