We went for the first little weekend cycle tour of the year last weekend! A much needed break from 24/7 work thoughts lately, and not feeling so good. I did my first century (ie first 100 mile bike ride) two weekends before that and it was awesome (might need its own post) but I felt really off all week after that. Multiple covid tests were taken and I took two sick days, and did absolutely nothing on both of those plus the weekend following them. I've still been getting bad headaches and weird dizzy spells but by now I think it must be stress? Because I've also not been feeling great mentally, and there's a lot of big things coming up and ongoing. Idk.
Anyway, this one was just lovely. It was supposed to rain all weekend so we decided to only camp sat to sun and take the bank holiday Monday to tidy and recover. The only rain we actually got was in the night, long after pitching the tent! So lucky. The campsite was beautiful, felt almost like a wild camp (pic 5). And I was just so happy to sleep in a tent, I've missed it so much :)
And then we got 4/5th up the pass at the beginning of our Sunday route... Only to be turned around by *snow*. In May!!! We ended up having lunch there because it was so pretty (pic 4), and while we were sitting there a guy actually came down on skis! We chatted to him for a bit and he said there usually isn't any snow there past March, it's just been such a crazy winter. We actually considered coming back next weekend to do the same ski tour, that would be so cool 🤣 but probably isn't happening as I don't have the full weekend off, and we've already put the gear away for summer. Maybe next year.
On the way home, we found a true hidden gem - a little cafe right on lake Zurich, which is normally overrun with people like, everywhere, off a bike path, with basically no one there and the loveliest people running it (pic 2). We sat by the water with our coffees and basked in the sun and it was pure bliss.
