{"id":29052,"date":"2019-05-24T09:59:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T09:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/?p=29052"},"modified":"2019-05-24T09:59:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T09:59:03","slug":"day-550-itabata-to-sao-mateus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/day-550-itabata-to-sao-mateus\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 550 – Itabata to Sao Mateus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 550                                                            21st January 2018
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57 miles ( Itabata to Sao Mateus)
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I got up at 7.30 and had brekkie at 8 after another night of listening to the radio. I had toasted ham and cheese sarnies with coffee and cake and banana with grapefruit juice. Not feeling my best after a couple of drinks  from the Brazilian top shelf last night. I left at ten and once again had to deal with some big climbs. It was another tough day.<\/p>\n

I stopped after an hour for a drink at the edge of a forest and pushed on in the heat. I was buzzed by a light aircraft a few times before I crossed my first time zone by bike as I arrived in Esp\u00edrito Santo which meant I lost an hour.<\/p>\n

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Light aircraft – can just make it out against the cloud<\/p><\/div>\n

Then I stopped off for lunch in a petrol station and had two chicken kebab sticks and a bottle of guarana. I carried on and after being run off the road another couple of times by very fast cars I got to my hotel,  but it was being rebuilt. Although I was tired I pushed on to the next petrol station but that too was closed. The next one was another 5 miles on so I headed there and thought about eating, showering and camping wild in the forest but as it was only another six miles to town and a bed for the night. I carried on up and down 3 more big climbs and arrived just before sunset. I checked the next hotel just up the road, but it too was closed, so I went back to the first one and checked in and parked the bike in the laundry room. I also checked the local area and realised I was only one mile from an area called Ayrton Senna. Once showered I went in search of food or a bar but there was absolutely nothing open on a Sunday, so I got the receptionist to order me pizza and beer which cost more than the room and took about an hour. It was worth the wait though.<\/p>\n

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Takeaway pizza<\/p><\/div>\n

The ongoing aroma in the room for the night was a mixture of tuna and onion with a heady combination of deep heat. It probably should have knocked me out, but I still managed to wake at 3am, probably due to the thirst from the pizza!<\/p>\n

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Hotel ipiranga 50 reais<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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