Dickyb
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Really enjoyed that. Thank you
Cheers,
Dicky
Cheers,
Dicky
Early on Thursday morning Jochen got word from home that his Father had been taken into hospital overnight. It didn't appear to be too serious initially so we carried on with our plan for the day.
We arrived at our hotel in Brasov at about 4-30pm on Thursday afternoon to a flurry of phone calls. Jochens Dad had been taken to hospital late on Wednesday night and his condition was now giving serious cause for concern. All through dinner the calls continued and upon our return to the hotel we set about changing Jochens flight home from Sunday to Friday lunchtime.
Our plan had been to drop the bikes off at the cargo terminal at Otopeni airport in Bucharest on Friday afternoon then spend the weekend in Bucharest before flying home on Sunday afternoon. With Jochens flight now changed to Friday lunchtime we tried to get the pickup time for the bikes changed from 3pm to 11am but that proved to not be possible so I decided to stay with the bikes to get them loaded then take a later flight home. €116 bought me a flight home late on Friday night which was still a cheaper and better option than a weekend alone in Bucharest.
I awoke just before 7am on Friday morning to the news that Jochens Dad Hans had passed away peacefully at 5am our time, 3am at home in Dublin. Whilst it wasn't completely unexpected it was still a shock that he had passed so suddenly. I think that Jochen was glad then that we had changed his travel arrangements the night before.
Just over one hundred miles separated us from the drop off point for the bikes and they were despatched with in two hours of steady riding. We didn't stop, nor did we take any photos, we just rode along, deep I suspect, in our own thoughts. Jochen caught his plane home and after getting the bikes loaded for the trip home I too made my way home to Dublin.
An eventful end to the trip and certainly not one that we had anticipated.
Loved reading it again Aidan all in one piece. I'm looking forward to a more leisurely attempt at a similar venture next month.
From the valley floor one can see a huge spaceship like construction on the top of a mountain high above us. Little did we know that twenty minutes later we would be right up there looking back down at where we had just come from.