Friday, September 13, 2024

LITHUANIA , VILNIUS DAY 133 302 km.

Got to Vilnius just after 10am after a three hour ride and went to the bike shop to get my chain and sprockets but they had not arrived so I went to the hostel. 
Have a nice corner room in the hostel so it has three windows and can't hear anyone, even has a good size TV and a fridge, the downside I have to share the bathroom, I thought it had one but I was wrong.
A guy I met last year in Bulgaria is from here and organized my chain and a mechanic for me which was a gret help then he wanted to pay for it, a gift he said but I paid him but he is sick so am unable to see him. Went to the mechanic at 5pm and he had a hot toasted sandwich and tea for me which I devoured as I had forgotten to have lunch. Arturas then started on moving the old chain and then got a call that the chain had arrived, so he went and fetched it while I had some tea.
Half hour later he got back and fitted the sprockets and then put on the chain, but it was the wrong chain !   Now it was 6:30 pm and after a few calls he headed back to get the other chain which he had to remove four links to make it the correct length. I was so grateful because he was leaving after he was done with me on holiday, a four hour drive to the coast. He finished up and I left at 8pm back to the hostel.

    Seconds afyer this picture was taken he discovered it was the wrong chain.

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