{"id":3510,"date":"2013-04-20T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2013-07-31T22:47:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T20:47:47","slug":"melnik-strumica-5km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=3510","title":{"rendered":"Melnik – Strumica + 5km"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ride down to the Struma valley was easy, as was most of the rest of today’s ride. Not far from the city of Petrich I spotted a mini turtle on the road – and safely carried it across.<\/p>\n

Petrich itself didn’t impress us much and we didn’t stop at all despite being in dear need of sun cream and a properly working battery for my phone.<\/p>\n

Instead we continued along the valley of the river Strumeshnica towards Macedonia. The border crossing was easy and the border guard happily stamped our passports as souvenirs.<\/p>\n

We are camping near a reservoir lake above the city of Strumica that has lots of plastic waste floating in it and looks too dirty to have a swim in. A bit disappointing, not only after a sweaty day of riding.<\/p>\n

Cycled: 87km<\/p>\n