Day 40: Otocac, Croatia

Stats... 69,29km in 4hrs 25mins. What does not kill us, only makes us stronger is our moto for today. We cycled the most amazing coastal road for ages with the weather being incredibly hot and sunny. It seems we chose the wrong day to have off. We made it Senj and had a lunch stop on the pier but we ended up throwing most of our bread into the sea for millions of fish that were perfectly visible in the extremely clear waters. We then had a huge climb from sea level to 700m high in approx 10km. This was steep and hard work to say the least. We believe it was harder than the Alps even as the heat and luggage took its toll. We were blessed with a downhill for a while into a pretty valley with plenty of poppies. We saw a sign which showed that we were only half way to our intended distance for the day and we were struggling. There were several free rooms in houses so we chatted to a women and before we knew it we had our feet up for the day. We cleaned the bikes some more as they were squeeking at us and had a beer with the owners of the house.