Bought some bread and jam at Koper. Set out riding along the shores of the Meditteranean. Passed high over the waster as the road clung to cliffs and climbed upward. Long and continuous cycling to Venice. Watched the sun turn into a firery red mass of heat and melt into the horizon.
An hour later I was on the bridge leading to the city of bridges. The colorful city was reflected in the waters turning the landscape and seascape into a myriad of colors. Met a boy from Dublin at the boat dock, after having checked my luggage and bike at a garage. Got to the youth hostel and then went across the channel to a pizzaria for my first real Italian pizza.
Mileage: Koper to Venice 177 km
American Express 2.00
Bread and jam .15
Boats .20
Supper 1.35
Hostel .75
Stamps 1.65
Met Gerardo Ponemuns
Avenida Jose Antonio
Primo De Rivera 761
Barcelona
Just before I slept the boy under my bunk invited me to spend the night with him at his house and he would give me a ride. Had breakfast with Tea and went down with her to school. Went to coffee with some of her friends and then her boyfriend took me out of town in his car. On returning had lunch with Tea downtown. Then we went 40 km toward Zagreb to attend to some business of Tea and her boyfriend.
At 6:30 the guys were ready. We ate dinner in the student cafe, rounded up some others and when we left Ljubljana at 7:30 there were nine of us, 1 bicycle and 1 amp in the large bus-van. It was quite a memorable trip, bouncing over Yugoslavian mountain roads at tremendous speeds, losing rubber at every corner. Within 15 km of Koper the accelerator cable broke so we rode it in with one steering and one pulling the throttle.
Lunch .80
Supper .12
Cookies .08
Pavlin Martin
Prisonjna Pot 1
Novo Mesto
Slovenia, Jugoslavia
