{"id":5002,"date":"2022-09-12T22:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T21:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/?p=5002"},"modified":"2022-09-12T22:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T21:02:18","slug":"thursday-at-the-hotel-estalagem-in-braganca-portugal-thursday-25th-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/travel\/thursday-at-the-hotel-estalagem-in-braganca-portugal-thursday-25th-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday at the hotel Estalagem in Braganca Portugal\u00a0 Thursday 25th August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Time to catch up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Braganca hotel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ride through the tunnels from Santander heading south was enjoyable and I remembered them from previous trips. The temperature varied. At some moments I thought about stopping to get something warmer on then later to take something off. But the trend was that it was getting hotter. I stopped once at a Repsol station not to get fuel but some water and peanuts which I started eating standing next to the bike, a pattern for my travels, then headed off. But it was getting hotter and eventually the wind changed from being a cooling breeze to feeling like sitting in front of an open oven door. I don\u2019t know why but I kept on riding when I should have stopped to drink water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Burgos<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"Burgos<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"KTM<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I remember I stopped in a stone walled car park in Burgos a beautiful university city on the Camino it seemed by the pilgrims that I saw walking by the road. But I didn\u2019t stop for any length of time. It was too hot. I headed for campsite one, Camping Riberduero Spain, Castilla Y Leon, and got there just after two. I had to phone the manager when I arrived. She said go ahead and pitch and gave directions to vacant spaces. I was impressed by the professionalism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Camping<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was hot and there were flies and I was exhausted by the heat. A shower helped but it wasn\u2019t till about 6 when I climbed back into my bike gear to visit the local supermarket and came away with Dinner and a beer all wrapped up with a bag of ice that I started to relax. So I determined to do the next day differently. I slept ok though realised my tent was next to a light so it was never dark. Dogs barked in the night reminding me of other nights in Spain. Breakfast and it always takes so long to pack up and leave.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A better experience. I knew those first couple of cooler hours would be the ones to enjoy. A spell on a motorway then a stop for orange juice then N122 all the way over the big bridge on the Douro marking the border between Spain and Portugal noting the temperature was over 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I arrived in the town too early to check in so parked up and had something to eat from my supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"At<\/a>\n<\/div>
Parked and feeling optimistic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There is a loud music venue and a happy dog below as I write this at 9.45pm at night at Hotel Estalagem.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once at Braganca and rather hot with time to kill I found the start of the ACT here – which is why I came – and tried the first bit of gravel road. The bike was hot it\u2019s fans racing. I was hot and flustered, in turn willing to try it and definitely not willing. But I will try it and be prepared to exit onto the roads around here if needed. The next hotel further south has check in from 3pm so there will be a couple of hot hours tomorrow. I must keep my personal cool and let that ever present anxiety fall away. That\u2019s another story.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dinner here. High point a huge g and t in a huge ice-filled glass with condensation on the outside. Low point waiters asking continually if all was good.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"G&T<\/a>\n<\/div>
Look how big this drink is! It needed both hands to lift it. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The room here is old fashioned with large old fashioned furniture and bathroom and I had to move a very large wardrobe into the middle of the room to get to the electric sockets to get everything charged up. So un-21st century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Charging<\/a>\n<\/div>
Behind the huge wardrobe in the middle of the room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\"Hotel<\/a>\n<\/div>
My usual mess<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time to catch up.  In Braganca hotel The ride through the tunnels from Santander heading south was enjoyable and I remembered them from previous trips. The temperature varied. At some moments I thought about stopping to get something warmer on then later to take something off. But the trend was that it was getting hotter.…Read more Thursday at the hotel Estalagem in Braganca Portugal\u00a0 Thursday 25th August<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[162,102,208],"class_list":["post-5002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-ktm-790-adventure","tag-motorcycle","tag-portugal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5004,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions\/5004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}