More rain and no bridge

 Today's plan was to ride over a long bridge to an island just off the coast here.  But the weather here is still bleak...

After breakfast, I decided to give it a go, as it was just gloomy and not raining.  So Hennie was unlocked and away we went.  At about 5km out, the big drops began to fall.  No worries.  But another km saw those drops multiply quickly to a steady downpour and any hopes of riding over a long bridge with no shelter were quickly quashed.  So I decided to continue in a loop back to the Hotel.

Thankfully, there was a cycle path through a tunnel, when I had expected I would be going over a hill, but another disappointment when the trendy Cafe 601 was closed!  

Should have been easy but the old left instead of right turn had me doing a couple of circles before getting onto the right street back to the hotel.  By now, even with my rain coat on, Hennie and I were drenched.  At least, some of the mud had been washed off of Hennie!  

My timing was right out, as I arrived just in time to see the cleaner going into my room for its daily "make-up" - 30mins please!  I was drenched, so I grabbed a clean t-shirt, changed in the hallway, then went down to have a coffee to calm me down.  it worked!

I didn't take the camera out of my bag, so I've clipped a couple of stills from the Fly12 just to give a small idea of what I did today.  25kms mostly in the rain and along busy streets and footpaths.  Not ideal at all...  But the weather is out of my control... unfortunately for me!