Day 11: Ljubljana-Novo Mesto (71 km, 813 ↑)

In Ljubljana, we stayed for one more workday and one more night. Ljubljana was quite nice with many restaurants and bars and a nice old town.

What was not so nice was the weather forecast for today. Yr forecast a lot of rain the whole day, already in the morning, while wetter.com said it would be nice in the morning, but thunderstorms and heavy rain showers from around noon. We chose to believe wetter.com, set our alarms for six o’clock and planned to leave by seven.

The stage to Novo Mesto was not too long with 71 kilometres, but had a lot of hills. We should still manage to arrive comfortably before twelve if nothing unforeseen happened.

The unforseen did happen though when Udo had a flat tire after one hour. We had to stop to fix the tire which cost us around fifty minutes. With the bad weather forecast threatening us and the clouds moving in, we tried our best to reach Novo Mesto as quickly as we could.

Luckily, we managed to reach our hotel at quarter past twelve – dry. Shortly after though, the heavens opened and a heavy rain shower came down. We were lucky to be inside the hotel and could watch the spectacle from our table where we had a very nice lunch.

We were also happy to meet our Korean friend Jong-Won again, as well as Clara from Germany and Meret from Switzerland – all bikers with different routes and interesting stories to tell. We enjoyed some pizza and drinks and spent a lovely evening together.