Kadikoy to Ahmutcuk 86km

Most of the way was flat to Eregli but then we decided to take a short cut, at my suggestion, to avoid going inland too much. This was a very tiring if beautiful mistake. We climbed a bit and then descended into a deep deep valley. After a little to ing and for ing about which was the best way for a bike up the hill out of the valley, we realised it was getting a bit late to get anywhere to stay. We climbed as much as we could, me pushing most of the way, and found a little place to camp in the woods. If you look at the picture on the right you can just about make out the road that we had to climb after our descent into the valley!

It was a lovely secluded little spot surrounded by rhodedendrons. We set up camp and cooked ourselves some food. We thought that we were far enough away from the village to not get hassled by anyone, but just as I was dozing off and Humphrey was writing his diary (I was too tired to do mine) we heard shouts of 'drunken youths' saying hello! A heart stoppiong five minutes passed as we tried to listen for foot steps down to us nothing came of it. The worrying thing was that both Humphrey and I both had dreams of the tent being shaken in the night...a mystery never to be solved! Onward and literally upward in the morning. It is never as bad as it looks but sometimes it is much much worse!