More kids means more fun, more bikes, and more wheels that means more area which can collect thorns and needles and glass. Last year we cycled to Berlin and got totally no defect. This year we found out, how lucky we were. We got some thunderstorms, rain and almost everyday some fun with fixing our lovely horses.
Collecting for a week all the bacteria from Ludek (2 years old boy who stayed with us on our accommodation) meant that we started cycling with Robert who had a bit temperature, running nose, coughing, and all those things which he managed to avoid during his last year and half. The weather forecast was not really pleasant, but as we say in Czech: "Kdo se bojí, nesmí do lesa." (Who is scared cannot go to the forest). We decided to go, he seemed quite fine and happy over all. Some highlights from the trip.
1. Don't tell kids that there is only the first hill in the beginning and then it goes down or flat if you are not 200% sure. Those small bumps in the elevation profile are not that small, especially when you go from 990 meters to 150 meters. Kids are not stupid, they don't want to be fooled.
2. Woa, it is here. We can cycle uphills with kids and they can manage it! They would never go with us knowing how many hills are on the way, but in the end they really managed to go most of them without walking.
3. It was the first time when I really enjoyed cycling with kids in the same way as I used to enjoy it alone or only with Jan - or at least some parts. Maki was able to cycle most of the time without my mental support, she was even several times proud of herself on top of the hill, forgetting, that she could tell me that I am terrible.
4. Kids can really surprise you. When you ask them on the main station what about going home 17km on bike instead of taking the train and they say without complains "yes", you might really sit on your bottom and stare to them, wondering, what happened.
5. Loket has really scary prison with torturing examples. Don't go there if you don't like horrors.
6. Going on bike through mud and paddles is fun. But it needs some courage as you typically do not see how deep it is until somebody in front of you (typically mum) tries it :-)
7. Too much mud in the puddles might mean that you break your bike, or a carrrier. And in the middle of nowhere it is not what you want with all your luggage. It might only get worse if all your luggage would fall to the mud :-).
8. When you take off the empty wheel and start fixing it with your patches and after 8 of them are used, the bike is still immediately flat after pumping, you start to wonder, how one thorn could make so many holes. When you use another 8 and start cutting an old tire to get more, you do not wonder anymore, you just laugh.
9. Tent for 3.5 people is not getting bigger every year, but we are.
10. The last meters in front of the house are the most dangerous. Maki hit a lamp just 100 meters from the house and I got the sentence, which I didn't hear for a while: "you are the worst mother in the world" yell.
Instead of a week, we cycled only for 4 days as Robert was still a bit sick and slowly stopped eating any normal food (apart of bananas and bread), we were tired from defects and from the rain and especially because we had in front of us only the boring end of the way with no elevation (kids would not agree with this point :). It was really nice to have this calm pleasant cycling trip altogether. Hope that next year, we will manage something a bit longer.
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