Day 15 From beach to beach (near Elba) 140 km and 1000 meters altitude difference

Now I'm sitting here on a campsite, again very close to the sea and have headphones on and listen to music. Why do I mention this? Have tried it briefly without but all around me are Germans and I understand them well. What the children give from themselves, that has yes still level, but other conversations, ohje mineral water bottle prices, the stand here costs 22 euros the night (so a tent) and the discuss around 5 cents. Drink tap water. So how was it this morning? I took the direct route, was also nowhere posted that I was not allowed to drive here, 20 km highway. Has no honked, on the other side were also cyclists. Was still sometimes not nice, have quite narrowly overtaken, despite two lanes, sometimes you just have to spread your little finger and you scratch the paint. After 20 km it was enough for me, I went down and over the villages, was then also already in Tuscany and suddenly the quality of the roads was better, much better. Immediately found a super nice coffee, oh I would have liked to stay there a few more hours, but nothing there. I had to get the day's altitude behind me before it got too hot. And it did get hot, 34°C. Every day one degree less? Then I am in 20 days in Germany as I hear. By noon the altitude was over and I was in Grosetto, from then on a relatively good bike path started, even shady in the pine forest. In the meantime, I sometimes wonder about the bike paths here, so the signage. Never is a direction or destination designated, but each crappy exit is provided with a start and end sign. So it comes that sometimes on 500 m 50 signs are. Crazy. And boomers should not ride bicycles. In a curve one came towards me on my side, a full braking on my part prevented worse, he passed me on the right, I complained and he started to lament. Well, what I can not use at all is when you can not even admit your mistakes and apologizes, if i not would have braked 130 kg with 25 km / h run into him and he starts to discuss. Anger came up and i let out a scream, I was already on the way to him to matchen his ugly sunglasses from the mask, as the humility then came out in him. What an idiot, I told him that too and a few more little niceties, in every language I know and that's a few by now. Little things I don't like? Not owning up to his mistakes and apologizing for them and number two (also a boomer today) pushing on the fruit at the grocery store and then putting it back, 25 peaches, it's not the touching but the pushing that annoys me. Such selfish Trump behavior, no wonder the world is going to shit and the old folks are screwing up, sure (someone has to be to blame). What else? Unfortunately I had a lot of crosswind or headwind, which is massively bad, especially the crosswind can sometimes really surprise you. So there it was then sometime 14 o'clock, I had a little over 100 km on the speedometer and was thinking about whether today still 80 km or only 40 km. If I had driven the 80 km I would be loose until 18 o'clock, until the tent is built, showered, eaten, loose sunset. On the other hand here at Elba I could be lucky with the sunset, in me it discussed a while, then came a hill in the sun with headwind and lo and behold the decision was made, 40 km. So legs up, gear out, I had time from now on, cappuccino here, tartlets there oh shopping, stroll, it can also be beautiful and not just exhausting. The crux is I should make tomorrow for it relatively many kilometers, if I see that correctly but there is hardly any height, until shortly before Cinque Terre I want to come, so La Spezia. Tomorrow it should go in any case in a hotel, because I should load powerbanks, because the day after tomorrow I definitely want to descend on a campsite. Genoa, clear where I will live. So then I arrived today on a nice little place, past all the touristy full-board campgrounds at the very end of the row and lo and behold, one just to my taste, with character. Then as I said, oh now the kid fell on his face, I can hear that even through the headphones, so not the kid, the blame the parents, uh where, oh yes tent pitching, shower, eat and down to the sea. Stupid angle for the sunset, had to stand in the water, there I stood now a beaten hour, my old mosquito bites thanked, cooling. Although the water is fantastically warm, so well then there were a few good photos, the light was great despite clouds. Unfortunately I had misjudged, over Elba the sun did not go down from my position, no matter. Today, a few old stories from my past came into my head, there is something working. Let's see when it is ready fermented and comes out, in this sense, good night.