On the road again

After somehow making it 13km out of town with a wheel that moved 10cm from side to side, I then had to ride back in the following morning to try and purchase a new wheel for Ness.

First stop, the tourist office. Either EasyJet destroy a lot of bikes, or perhaps cycling is a popular pastime for visitors to Olbia but nevertheless the lady at the office had a complete list (there are two) of local bike shops at her fingertips. So after a brief discussion around the minor fact that New Zealand is not part of Australia and is actually it's own country I hunted down the shop Zema.

The bike mechanics at Zema didn't speak a word of english however after a short game of charades and 50 Euros later I did manage to walk away with a brand new wheel for Ness.



With two functioning bikes it was a reasonably short and blessedly uneventful meander up the coast to the port of Palau where the ocean was quite literally two metres from the tent door.