I left Istanbul this morning. The route was a bit chaotic, and I shouldn’t have trusted Komoot : it seems to me that the cycle path I took after about ten kilometres started closer to my hotel... Luckily there was a nice lift to cross the dual carriageway, so I didn’t have to carry my bike.

At first the sea is really full of cargo ships, then they disappear and the sea makes you want to swim again.

Then, apart from a few kilometres along the beach and a few times when my route diverged, we stayed on a 2x3 lane overall ! Unpleasant : the noise, the smell, some buses or lorries driving past...

But the journey didn’t last that long, and I arrived at the home of my warmshowers host Emre. Emre is a rich and (very) young pensioner, who owns a very large house where he houses a lot of people.

Tomorrow Tekirdag.