78km
Unfortunately, we had to leave the comforts of Sara and Gandalf’s warm home, but we like to think we left them full with our previous night dinner and good conversation. We know we were. We hope they will come to visit us in the states when they journey there in the next year or two. We think they would enjoy Chicago, but we will have to find a fixie (track bike/fixed gear bike) for Gandalf and maybe a short term messenger gig for him. He would be instantly at home with these comforts. Gandalf was the first, or maybe fourth, person in all of Slovenia to have a fixed gear bicycle, and with his killer mullet, we can’t help but think about this video we saw on facebook a while back.
The ride was on a direct route on the main road to the coast. Luckily, with the adjacent expressway, the traffic was calm and better yet with such a wide road. Postojna sits in a part of slovenia known as the karst. For information about Karst topography, click here
It was a chilly ride and we were hoping that once we dropped over the Karst Cliff some five hundred meters to the coast it would warm up….but it didn’t. Autumn had arrived, after avoiding it for so long. None the less, first sight of the sea was a much anticipated event, our first major goal achieved.
From Jowita’s hometown in Poland to the Adriatic Sea…..Check!
With our first view of the sea had us looking over some towns in Italy, and as we dropped over the Karst, everything changed to seem more like Italy, or what we think of Italy. The Architecture, the language, the fruit, the vegetation, the people, the towns, all so quickly changed to a new place. We had reached the Mediterenean!
Tobias and jowita cycling from postojna to the Coast
Church with Karst Cliff backdrop
View of the Karst Cliffs near the Slovene coast
Tobias snatching Japanese apples in slovenia
Cycling into old town koper, Slovenia
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