{"id":27971,"date":"2019-05-01T16:22:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T16:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/?p=27971"},"modified":"2019-05-01T16:22:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T16:22:14","slug":"day-517-coruripe-to-japoate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/day-517-coruripe-to-japoate\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 517 – Coruripe to Japoate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 517                                                             19th December
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65 miles (Coruripe to Japoate)  Average speed 11.9 mph Top speed 98mph  ??<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>A tough day mechanically.<\/p>\n

I was awake at 3 am listening to Micky Flanagan on the BBC app. I got up at at 8.15 for a good brekkie even though some was more like a dinner; egg, sausages in tomato sauce, mince meat with veg, Danish pastries, water melon and lots of coffee. I went to a supermarket to buy lunch of cheese and ham and rolls and set off at 10.45. I found the main road easily and after a big climb, which negated my shower, the road was flatter. After just 35 minutes I noticed a familiar noise from the rear rack: I\u2019d lost a screw and stopped to try and fix it but the thread was damaged.<\/p>\n

I had parked up in the shade of a palm tree but probably the only only one that stank of pee which didn\u2019t help with my work. I removed the two rear panniers and found a nut and bolt at the bottom of one of them and managed to do a temporary fix, but I think the frame will need to be re tapped soon. The nut and longer bolt meant I couldn\u2019t use top gear, but this was OK as long I remembered! The road then returned to being more ups and downs but the shoulder was still good and I made good progress. I had a rest after 20 miles in a shelter made for selling goods.<\/p>\n

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Brief stop<\/p><\/div>\n

Then I pushed on for another ten miles to get to the ferry and stopped to buy food for dinner in case I wild camped and a large 2 litre bottle of Sprite. There was only one ferry running so it was a bit of a wait, which gave me the chance to have lunch with some very strange one clawed crabs and a very skinny cat.<\/p>\n

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Hungry Cat<\/p><\/div>\n

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One clawed crab<\/p><\/div>\n

The crabs weren\u2019t interested in my ham but the cat devoured quite a bit! She needed it! Eventually the ferry arrived and two cars, a motorbike and I boarded. It was an incredible journey that I would imagine was a bit like going through the Everglades with some stunning scenery and fantastic colourful plants and birds.  As I left the ferry I realised I hadn\u2019t paid but nobody asked me for money so I carried on.<\/p>\n

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Ferry journey<\/p><\/div>\n

At the other end I bought some more water and hoped to take the coast road, it turned out to be a sandy track with lots of lorries so I headed north in the hope of finding a wild camp, but it was all fenced off private land. I got to a forest marked on the map, but there was no way in and lots of dead animals, even a whole cow, so I carried on. I was tempted by a bar next to a cement works which had a table and picnic area, that was too busy with workers and too noisy. So I aimed for the next forest, but by now it was dark. I stopped at a motel, though I got the feeling it was more of a brothel; one I saw earlier in the week charged by the hour, so I think I\u2019ll give them a miss. I continued into the dark having fixed my back light and went in search of a gas station 2 miles away.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t have any space for camping but the friendly guy told me of a pousada in town. Although it was uphill all the way the thought of a bed gave me the strength to get there.
\nI checked in and although the room was small I didn\u2019t mind as I just needed a shower. I locked the bike in the driveway and then went in search of food. There wasn\u2019t much around, the pizza place had finished serving. I needed food but the only place was a bar in the market where I ordered two burgers and a beer.<\/p>\n

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Two burgers and a beer<\/p><\/div>\n

It took forever as he served lots of people picking up take away and when I\u2019d finished my beer, I had to ask him again as he seemed to have forgotten about my order. Back at the hotel I shooed a pair of very large cockroaches out of my room and tried to get some sleep.<\/p>\n

Pasouda aguaro 20 reais<\/p>\n

Shower ensuite a tv that doesn\u2019t work  and two of the biggest cockroaches I\u2019ve ever seen but a bed is exactly what I needed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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