Garry McGivern’s cycling around the world, Tuesday, 28th-August-2012 Eskene to Atyrau. 39 miles. I slept really well last night, as I usually do when camping. There was no rush to get up this morning, as I knew there were less than forty miles to cycle today. But I still got up early. I wanted to de-camp and get on my way before I got spotted, not that I think it would be a problem. But better to be safe than sorry.
I made it into Atyrau just before midday and had a little ride around looking for a hotel. I’d already sorted out which hotel to stay at when I was in Aktau. It was the sister hotel of the one I stayed at in Aktau. I looked around to see if there were any other, maybe cheaper hotels, but in the end, I decided to come to the sister hotel of the one in Aktau as I’d already thought! I wanted a fairly decent hotel as I’m leaving my bike and bags all here when I have to fly to Turkey, which is all a bit worrying!
The fire alarm went off just after checking in, and I had to leave the hotel. Thankfully it was a false alarm, and we were allowed back in after about half an hour.
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