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Eleventh stage of Ostrava - Bielsko Biala 59 km, running 3:37, 5:03 Total (from start to finish), Km Total: 1161.17

Today's stage was relatively short, but given the size of the city, I asked Paul to use the van and take me out for good.
I wanted to avoid the usual 20 km of elevated, tunnel and smog that often I had to sip out of the city.
Data in more than 40 km yesterday, I was morally right: I was not totally cheating.

So we get up later, we had a nice breakfast in the way of bars, the Stodolni
with a good cappuccino served by a lady who lived 7 years in Italy and therefore understood our comments on the curves of her maids.

The wise guy took us out of town from where Paul and I left for the border.
Schengen has erased the boundaries here, epochal change passed unnoticed after all, but unfortunately I left the mountains.
We have spent little to understand that the 56 km would have been difficult: it was all go down a salt, in which the salt prevailed on downs.
The slope is important to make the ride very hard and we were already tired after a few km.
However, we continued up to the Polish border.
Poland. I arrived in Poland. I enjoyed the moment for a moment on the bridge that divides the two countries and Paul took the photo you see with the phone.

There we found ourselves in a kind of four-lane highway, this undulating.
After a few kilometers to the police, stopped beside the road, has kindly given an alternative called "stara drugs", ie the "old road".

Horror. The famous Polish roads still exist. If you do not see them is because you only run the new super road, but again, still exist.
The classic Polish road is two lanes equipped with gutters for the wheels of the trucks so they can also fall asleep at the wheel without going astray.
In fact, the canals are the result of the passage of trucks during the warm months.
The surface reacts to the weight moving to the soft side.
The holes are lined with asphalt road and the bed is full of patches in various shades of black and gray.
Bike paths, almost absent, always force you to choose between the lesser of two evils.
The plump little old lady with two shopping bags that captures all the bike path is also a classic.
From walking and posture seems to say "there is no place for them both in this track, made by hand."
And I always had to go down, jumping from platform (in fact it is never a real bike path, but a sidewalk), to avoid the ditch and back on track.
All dressed by waste lorries.
Regrets of Austria.

Around 40 km I noticed a certain nostalgia in the eyes of Paul, who indirectly alluded to the possibility of taking a bus.
Since I knew that it was one of the usual techniques of Charlotte, I have not taken the bait.

Around noon we had lunch at 12 zlotys (4 euros) with soup, fish workers and cursing (here prefer the "kurwa") at the next table.

The effort is always rewarded in the end and we arrived safely in Bielsko, where Kasia, the girl who was meant to house Paul and Valeria has offered to host all!
The mother, like the old days, was glad to have her daughter's guests.
Reminiscent of the early nineties when we traveled to Poland for weeks without ever staying in a hostel, but always at the home of people who invited us after 5 minutes of chat.

Perhaps the Polish spirit is not consumed by consumerism as a final thought?

We finished the day with a party at a friend's house where we met Kasia among others a student of mechanical robot who dreams of being the cultivation of potatoes (but not too difficult because of tomatoes) and a student of Japanese culture that would wanted to study fashion (cool hunter) and he hates the Japanese.

The future Polish ruling class is forming.

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