Rain rain rain.

The rain in Slovakia falls straight down.

Late start after a dissection of many forecasts none of the good. The 104 km ride was optimistic. Started off not too bad. Beautiful forest and alpine pastures.

Soon started to pour and we aquaplaned our way to a restaurant mainly for shelter .

Dried up a bit and we abandoned the route to head home up a big but beautiful climb .

Lost Liz for a while at the top after she took a wrong turn. Thankfully the road she took rejoined the route.

Hope to wash the sludge off the bikes. Sent a crew off to buy supplies. Then Peter and Liz cooked a feast including an amazing apple strudel.

Card shark Scullion then proceeded to cheat his way to victory and as you might have expected was very modest about it.