{"id":1181,"date":"2022-09-16T18:45:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetravellingpear.com\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2022-09-16T18:45:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:45:26","slug":"day-27-leaving-dreamland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/thetravellingpear\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Day 27 &#8211; Leaving Dreamland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ui statistics\">\n<div class=\"ui statistic\">\n<div class=\"value\">54.1km<\/div>\n<div class=\"label\">\n<div id=\"dayDistanceLabel\">Distance<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ui statistic\">\n<div class=\"value\">876m<\/div>\n<div class=\"label\">\n<div id=\"distanceTravelledLabel\">Elevation<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"strava-embed-placeholder\" data-embed-type=\"activity\" data-embed-id=\"7818479278\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/strava-embeds.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We woke up to our incredible view out over the Douro River and, to get the most of the 7:30am-11:30am breakfast, showed up right at 7:30am. Breakfast was delightful, absolutely the best we&#8217;ve had. Espresso-based coffees were made to order, there were detox and fruit smoothies and juices, ginger shots, sparkling wine (!!), cooked breakfast in Dutch ovens, a good range of meats and cheeses, smoked salmon, a great muesli station (multiple kinds of nuts, yogurts, milks, seeds, chia pudding), a real honeycomb, crepes, and cakes and pastries (though not the best pastries we&#8217;ve had).<\/p>\n<p>At 9am we took an intermission. Viki rested while I went to a yoga class with one other couple (AJ and Nora, from San Diego) followed by a paddleboard on the river. At 11am we got in a second round of breakfast and got sandwiches and pastries for later. We had a slow checkout from 12pm, finally setting off biking at 1pm.<\/p>\n<p>The ride was only a half day today and was super hilly, with four climbs over 100m. The section by the Douro was pretty and smooth and then we switched to smaller roads that were a bit bumpy. It was quite hot and we were sweating immediately after starting (also because it was a 100m hill at 13-14% to leave the hotel).<\/p>\n<p>We made it to an albergue by 6:30pm (\u20ac9 per person per night), showered, and had our sandwiches for dinner. The albergue is way in the middle of nowhere and we took a 5km detour to get here, but it was nice to have a shower and have a bed to sleep in (and now viki has the complimentary ear plugs and face mask from last night&#8217;s hotel to wear).<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1181 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='\/thetravellingpear\/?attachment_id=1182'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/thetravellingpear\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220916_124824-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>54.1km Distance 876m Elevation We woke up to our incredible view out over the Douro River and, to get the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/thetravellingpear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/thetravellingpear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/thetravellingpear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/thetravellingpear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/thetravellingpear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/thetravellingpear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"\/thetravellingpear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/thetravellingpear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/thetravellingpear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/thetravellingpear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/thetravellingpear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}