Day 22 - What happens when you scramble cheese?
Given it was very windy, and that we'd eaten all of our breakfast for dinner (we told you - hunger issues) we got going quickly before our stomachs could rumble too loudly and were rewarded by a fantastic bakery and market opposite. The baker couldn't quite believe the quantity we ordered but we made a lot of it disappear and then got on the road towards Tuz Gölü, our first specific tourist site in a while - a salt lake! Made for some very cool pictures.
We bought a very overpriced cappuccino and enjoyed sitting inside out of the wind for a bit and charging Emma's battery pack which unfortunately doesn't seem to play nice with my dynamo. We ended up spending a while there looking at distances and plans for Cappadocia (the next touristy region), mostly whether to detour 60km to the biggest underground city or see the smaller one on route. After many options all of which started the same way anyway for the next 100km we got back on the bikes and headed away from the lake.
The scenery changed dramatically again as we did so, and the dried water taps further added to the desert feel! Eventually we found a working one, drunk our fill and I managed to wash my cycling top (it's been 4 days), hair (it's been 4 sweaty days) and legs (it's been...you get the idea) setting off again feeling very fresh indeed, and dry within minutes thanks to the hot sun and strong wind. Like within 10mins from dripping to dry t-shirt!
This dog was particularly aggressive and even managed to bite Emma's pannier!
The afternoon was not without it's excitement as we passed one lone and then a pair of tourers. First cyclists we've seen in weeks - we really are on the cross-world circuit now as the pair were cycling from New Zealand to their home in Italy - on the road for 1 year 7 months so far through Russia and China. We really hope it doesn't take us that long!
Later we came across a car accident involving one rental car which had recently spun off of the road, luckily no-one was hurt but we were approached to ask if we could help translate English-Turkish to the police. We found a common language of German with the crowd of local onlookers but weren't needed so didn't add to the crowd and went on to find dinner and our camp for the night.
10,825 miles I've done with my Ortlieb panniers without them coming off while moving, not once. I've had one of the two clips come loose once or twice but never the whole pannier. On the 10,826 mile, which happened late today, that changed and my pannier flew off mid descent and cartwheeled into a very spikey bush which added injury to insult on retreival! The pannier was otherwise fine, but it will have to work to earn my trust back. There was open cream cheese at the top of that pannier, so I guess we'll find out what happens when you scramble cheese!
Food spend today: 28.20 euros