{"id":29500,"date":"2019-05-29T07:28:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T07:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/?p=29500"},"modified":"2019-05-29T07:28:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T07:28:30","slug":"day-558-praia-siri-to-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/day-558-praia-siri-to-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 558 – Praia Siri to San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 558                                                            29th January 2018
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 <\/span>43 miles (Praia Siri to San Francisco) Average speed 12.5 mph Top speed 43 mph<\/span><\/p>\n

A good day of relaxing and then a good tailwind.
\nI got up at 8 and went for brekkie in the self service restaurant on the campsite. I went in and got a coffee and sat down but the waiter came over and told me to button up my shirt; there were two young ladies next to me in bikinis!! I had bread, cheese, ham and scrambled eggs and another coffee for 11 reais. Then I went back to my tent and down to the beach to relax on a sunbed. I went for a paddle and a walk along the beach and watched all the kids in kids club playing ball. These big campsites are a bit too much for me, I prefer the quiet ones.<\/p>\n

I packed up slowly in the heat and tried to clean my tent without much success. By the time I\u2019d checked out it was 2pm and I knew the start would be a fairly big climb, but it turned out to be lots more of ups and downs. Thankfully I had a strong tailwind to help me up the hills and after a while a bit of cloud cover too.  As  I ventured inland the surroundings changed to countryside with lots of farmland. I had lunch bought from a supermarket of ham and cheese rolls with hot chilli flavoured crisps, sat under a tree which also doubled up as a good way to dry out my clothes and wet towel. The people in the house opposite gave me some strange looks and they probably thought I was mad hanging my washing out to dry.<\/p>\n

In the next town there was a small pousada but I carried on with a couple of hours of daylight left. I stopped at a bus stop at the top of a hill to change my shorts in what had been a quiet road until I took off my shorts, when cars, motorcycles and lorries appeared from all directions. In my rush to change I inadvertently put them on back to front and had to go through the process once again.<\/p>\n

After lots more ups and downs I arrived in Sao Francisco and found the pousada on the main road quite easily. I was very happy to see it because I wasn\u2019t sure there would be one as there was nothing on the map. I checked in and showered in a tiny bathroom with the shower almost over the toilet and did my washing. Hopefully it will dry with the aid of the fan. I had to carry the bike and bags up two flights of stairs.<\/p>\n

I went out to search for food and a bank and walked about a mile in the thunderstorm that started the moment I left the hotel. I found a small bar and then a good restaurant and feeling flush having been to the bank I ordered steak and chips. It was massive and I struggled to finish it. At 36 reais it was probably one of the best value meals I\u2019ve had here in Brazil and it kept me out of the rain for a while.<\/p>\n

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Value-for-money steak and chips<\/p><\/div>\n

Pousada Sao Francisco 40 reais.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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