Day 56

12/10/2011 – Day 56

Corabia

During the night something I had eaten in the last 24 hours took a serious dislike to me, you can imagine the result.

As day broke I had slept very little and did not feel very well. Another day is going to be lost due to sickness!

I tried breakfast but that did not hang around too long so there was no way I would be able to ride the 70km we had planned for today.

The room had been freezing cold during the night and at breakfast one of the staff commented on it. ‘Well we do have central heating, you just had to ask’.

Once we had decided to stay another day here we went back to ask for some heating and were given an electric heater to plug in (which had a UK plug and adaptor for some reason).

Once again we wonder how this hotel can run with a staff of about 10 people and still make money, plus, we were asked to pay in cash up front on both days and our passport details were not recorded. When we ate in the restaurant we were given bills written out by hand and there were no serial numbers on them. There appears to be plenty of opportunity to fiddle the books here both for the owner and the taxman to lose out.

At least now we had the heater and the room was starting to warm up!

We took the opportunity to cycle into Corabia where I finally found a spare tyre to replace the one with a puncture, and a repair kit just in case.