Shop 1 couldn’t fix my bike, so they sent me to shop 2. The guys at shop 2 seem pretty good, they speak English*, and they have a van that can transport my broken bike. I think it’s in good hands. They said it’d take until about the end of the week, so tomorrow I’m going on to Ukraine by bus. Hang out there a bit, come back and hopefully pick up the bike in Lublin again, and charge on!

• whenever I say something like this, I want to put a lengthy disclaimer about how “they speak English” is sort of incidental, not the reason that I think it’s in good hands. I feel weird pointing it out. Interesting thought: talking about speaking English feels like talking about race.