{"id":31304,"date":"2019-07-27T12:59:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T12:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/?p=31304"},"modified":"2019-07-27T12:59:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T12:59:17","slug":"day-629-holambra-to-piraju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/day-629-holambra-to-piraju\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 629 – Holambra to Piraju"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 629                                                       10th April 2018
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43 miles (Holambra to Piraju) Average speed 10.5 mph Top speed 35 mph<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/span>I got up at 8 for brekkie of ham and cheese rolls with sweet coffee and cake. I left at 10 and climbed up the hill out of town with people saying good morning and a guy stopping his car to chat. I went to the bank but there was  no money available from the cash machine. Then I hit the main road which was busier than the weekend with lots more trucks, some of which tried to run me off the road and at least two succeeded.<\/p>\n

It was a tough day and the sun was hot, but my new cap helped and the peak would protect my eyes from the lorries from both directions as long as I remembered to put my head down. I made it to a bridge across the first river and stopped to watch a fisherman while taking on some water.<\/p>\n

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River<\/p><\/div>\n

I pushed on up and down many a hill and rested for a chicken kebab at a petrol station where I got chatting to a couple of guys, one who spoke good English and was planning a trip of his own, but by boat. I then continued on over many more hills and across another bigger bridge and the road became easier with a decent hard shoulder to avoid those big trucks. It also became steeper with longer hills to climb.I eventually made it to the top of a big climb and headed down the other side into the town of Piraju where I was welcomed by another climb up into the town centre.<\/p>\n

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Arriving at Piraju<\/p><\/div>\n

I found a bank and then asked a taxi driver for a hotel and he directed me to the international hotel, but I found this one first. I checked in and put the bike in the underground garage before diving into the shower and watching Barcelona lose to Roma in the champions league with a beer and a good rest on the bed. I went for a walk to the river and watched the dam and hydro electric plant with a powerful waterfall.<\/p>\n

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Watching the water and the hydro electric plant<\/p><\/div>\n

I had a lovely meal in the restaurant next to the hotel of fish with rice and beans, salad, bread and a carrot and mince spicy dish.<\/p>\n

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Dinner – very nice<\/p><\/div>\n

After a walk around town I retired early and decided to stay another night after such a hard day.<\/p>\n

Hotel Furlan 55 reais.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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