Those are the three ways heat is transferred:

Conduction: through touch (think touching a hot plate and pulling your hand away in alarm – conduction is vey effective!)

Convection: by heating a medium (such as air – think about feeling the heat in an oven, even though it is 200 C, it does burn you (but don’t touch the rack!!), and

Radiation: through electromagnetic waves (think about how the Sun heats the earth (through empty, super-cold space)

They were all on triple time today – and then some. In response, I reckon I got through more than 4l of water. (Even when I stopped – and sat down – for a sandwich at lunchtime, I could feel beads of sweat running down my calves.). TMI, I know.

And, as for Julia – she fainted three times and still hasn’t recovered. . . . Rhythm was a challenge.

And that meant slowing down. At times, it seemed even the Town names were mocking me:

A longer day too (due to a hotel booking that didn’t work (don’t ask) – then, a miscalculation on my part that added 16 k at the end of the day that I really didn’t need (book in haste, repent at leisure – and up a steep hill, too, for good measure!)

Still, time to take in the sights – like the waterfall:

And occasional roadside distractions: