Except for waking once with uncontrollable coughs because my meds had worn off, and the light sleep from pseudoephed, I slept OK.<\/p>\n
I took a slow start down to the bus station to take a train to Trakai and the castle there. Windy, rainy, and cold, with an anticipated 5 km hike to the castle and back. I’d exhausted myself just walking to the bus station (and by walk I covered part of the distance with an e-scooter). I came back to the hostel and went back to bed.<\/p>\n
In the evening I met a Swiss cyclist. She had cycled roughly the same route I had, except she’d abandoned it earlier for a train. We commiserated about the roads, especially Latvia. She said Latvia was the only country in the EU to have not upgraded their roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Except for waking once with uncontrollable coughs because my meds had worn off, and the light sleep from pseudoephed, I slept OK. I took a slow start down to the bus station to take a train to Trakai and the castle there. Windy, rainy, and cold, with an anticipated 5 km hike to the castle … Continue reading “Too cold”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-touring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4997"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5081,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997\/revisions\/5081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}