directions_bikeOver the Ore mountains to Germany

I started this trip with a goal to test my new nutrition model. My stomach is oversensitive, hotdogs and sandwiches at gas stations make me sick. So I made rice porridge with coconut milk, apple, honey and cinnamon. This should be easily digestible and putting it into steel bottle saves me from packing it into foil and then reopening during ride.
Then on my way to train I realized I forgot to take a spoon with me. Yeah, I don"t take it usually so it was easy to forget.
On top of that, the train was delayed 20 minutes. OMG, it"s quite cold in he morning and I don"t like getting up, so this felt like an insult. In the end, it didn"t matter because I needed to buy a spoon and the shop was not open until I arrived so I would have waited anyway.
Sun was shining, roads were clear and dry, I almost had to take off one of my there layers. I continued to the border when I noticed skiers getting in line for the lift up the hill.
After while my trouble began. Road was icy, I had to get down on my feet. Well, looks like I have to push it for a while. No problem.
I continued on the road and suddenly found myself staring at the "no entry" sign with a text that read "the road is closed from 1st November to 31st March. Oops, I"m a lousy planner. Although I plan carefully for the tiles (squadrats) I don"t like to check every detail. During rides I usually have to change route a bit to get a difficult tile, for example when the road is closed and there"s no way of entering.
Anyways, I did not sit on a train for 90 minutes just to give up! Hannibal crossed Alps with elephants! Crossing snowy roads of Ore Mountains on a road bike with 25mm tyres and no tread pattern seems like reasonable thing in comparison.
I took a side road through fresh snow and emerged again on the closed asphalt road covered with beaten snow. Skiers were going down in my direction with an "are you serious?" face expression. After a while, the skiing section of the road ended so I continued, passing by some hotels and accommodation with icy roads. Finally I got to a road with no snow or ice, I hopped on a bike and happily pedalled onwards.
Well, I feel like I"m missing something. Yep. It"s my right mitten. Must have fallen out of my handlebar somewhere. I put it there because I like taking photos of everything that seems interesting or beautiful and putting mittens on and off is tiresome. I had to go back find it. Urrgh, it"s the part where I have to push the bike... Once I lost expensive glasses in the exactly same situation, sandy terrain with little or no forest path, had to go back pushing the bike, lost around two hours. Luckily, I found my lost gear in both cases, if I don"t count tree lost LED blinking lights.
From there on, the route was mostly normal. Lots of climbing and downhill sections. When sunny and going uphill, I sweated, with sun behind clouds or going downhill, I felt a bit cold. Change from one to another was within minutes. That lasted until sunset. After that, I was just cold, especially my feet.
Last 20km were a treat though. Even though my feet were freezing even more,the downhill sections were amazing and quickly raised my morale. I arrived at Usti and Labem train station with enough time to warm myself with hot cocoa.
After inspection of collected tiles I the train, I got all planned tiles except for one. That"s OK, I"ll get it next time. I did what I could and I"m happy with the result. The whole adventure was amazing and looking for the next one.