140km is a long, long way on a touring bike

Because of a lack of hotels at about the right distance from our starting point, we had to do a big day. I’m not sure we knew it would be quite so big it was our new daily record.

There wasn’t too much climbing today, apart from a little rise early on, and we kept chugging along for longer than normal before we took a break, with 50km already under our belts.

Lunch was the Georgian fast food specialty, cheese in bread/pastry. It’s an amazing space filler, like eating a whole concentrated pizza in one go. 

The whole of the afternoon was flat, just driving along consistently for kilometre after kilometre. Podcasts on, brains tuned out and we soon made it to the Black Sea coast.