19 September, Tϋrkeli
to Inebolu, 58km
Hotel Ionobolu 100TL (breakfast included) (negotiated down from 110TL)
We spent our day engulfed by beauty, but
paid a price for it. There is no coastal plain along this stretch of ocean,
just one headland after another, making for lovely scenery, but lots of
climbing. For “climbing” read “walking”, the 10% inclines being beyond me. It
drizzled for much of the day, so we were damp and chilled when we breakfasted
on dört yumurta omelet (four egg omelette) in Çatalzeytin and lunched on hot
soup in Abana and, in between, at the top of a long climb, had coffee in a
small village çay evi (tea house) filled as usual with men. On sections of this
route were stunning rock formations, layers of hardened sediment in greys and
creams lifted out of the sea to stand almost perpendicular, cracking and
chipping in thousands of years of sunlight. In Inebolu we treated ourselves to
a quality hotel and met another cyclist headed east on the 010. Young and fit
and Swiss, he too told us how tough the road is. It is somehow comforting to
know that the young and fit also find this route challenging.
Between Tϋrkeli and Inebolu
Between Tϋrkeli and Inebolu
Between Tϋrkeli and Inebolu
Between Tϋrkeli and Inebolu
Between Tϋrkeli and Inebolu
Between Tϋrkeli and Inebolu
Inebolu
Inebolu