A very short stage today to avoid riding in the heatwave.

My first objective is to reach a bike shop marked on OSM [1] and pick up some patches and tubes. I’ve never had so many punctures on a trip, thanks to the tyres provided by the bike shop in Toulouse 😡 The young guy serving me will provide me with some big patches that will do the trick, but he doesn’t have the tube. It’ll be fine, we don’t need to ride much more. I ask how much I owe... no, nothing !!! And as it’s not enough to have the patches for free, Dad stops us when we’re leaving and the kid gives us each two cucumbers ! 😎

A little further on, we stop to ask for hot water for coffee. No luck, the samosas aren’t ready yet. Before setting off again, we take a photo of the ovens and the guys insist that we take a good look inside, with samosas, cakes and chicken cooking.

Finally we arrive at the hotel where the receptionist makes a mistake on the exchange rate to our advantage ^^ The manager will come and claim the difference from us a bit later 😄

Then in the afternoon we visit Saïd, a ceramics manufacturer.

Tomorrow’s last stop is Marghilon, the silk capital.