I have abandoned the coast line, which is unspectacular and smothered by holiday villages, so now progressing a few miles inland, through a region of lovely forests and lakes, with gentle climbs and subsequent long lazy freewheel descents.

Yesterday I finally realised that the USB cable I was using to charge my phone from the dynamo keeps cutting out, and hey presto, with a new cable everything is working properly. So the last couple of weeks have been unnecessarily tough power wise!

I never thought I'd see more volvos than in that one town in California, but here it must be the law that every household has at least one Volvo estate car.

Getting used to the slightly different exchange rate, things aren't really horrendously expensive, they do have a novelty way of selling booze though, if you want anything over 3.5% it's only available on government run bottle shops, which can be few and far between in the countryside!

Storks. No wait, cranes.

Camped by a lake again. V.nice.