I got up early today to take a bus to the tiny hillside town of Stublle e Eperme to participate in a bicycle tour, the annual Tour de Culture.  Several of Annette's colleagues, all new arrivals to Kosova, also planned to participate using bikes rented at the start of the tour. After about 90 minutes of confusion and walking up and down steep, narrow streets we finally got our rent-a-bikes and the crowd finally started down the steep grade that eventually would reach the large town of Gjilan, 25 kilometers to the north.  After about a kilometer in the  densely-packed peloton I had to stop due to an accident ahead and discovered that my front tire was flat.  Seeking assistance from the mechanics I was told they could not fix the tire so I should walk up to the trucks in the village and exchange my bike for another one.  After another good uphill hike, this time pushing a bike, I find that there are no spare rental bikes, so I put my bike in the sag truck and hop on a bus, my day of biking at an end.  As it turned out, it was a very hot day and the route had lots of long uphill pulls, so my bus ride wasn't that bad after all.