Here where the advice is not to drink the water from the tap, its interesting how I'm trying to balance a constant reminder to everyone to drink plenty whilst also being mindful of every drop. I keep refilling a little bottle from the big ones we bought at a supermarche. On more than one occasion I have had to give my water to others as I'm more prepared than they are. Offering my water is something I clearly would do to anyone, can you think of anything more humane to do? But I'm squeamish about germ sharing and often wouldn't then have my bottle back unless I loved you very very much. This may stem from sharing a drink with one of my offspring when they were little and it came back to me with bits in it. So even though I love them more than anything, I might not even now take my bottle back after they have drunk from it.
Today I'm packing lots of little bottles into a day sack for our cycle ride. I was a little embarrassed at breakfast when chatting to a biologist i met yesterday. I said we were hiring bikes today and he asked which route we would be following. I said we would head to the nearest village, which is only some 4 km away. Enquiring as to their cycling plans for the day, they are doing a 47 km frontier route. We are a diverse party tho, one of us regularly cycles the guild wheel, whereas others haven't been on a bike in some time.
As always, its not a competition. We can all enjoy our time whatever it is we do :-)
We got through a lot of water. Somehow my boy had lost or not brought any footwear other than flip flops which are not suitable for cycling so we had to go via a shoe shop. We did about 24 km, lovely flat countryside.
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