{"id":2877,"date":"2019-05-28T07:46:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T12:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2024-06-17T18:50:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T22:50:50","slug":"190528-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/190528-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"190528-Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Later last night I decided I’d worked hard to gain my current elevation, and wanted the return on that investment. So, new plan.<\/p>\n

I feel both better and worse. The cold medication reduced my cold symptoms. And then makes me feel a bit off (yes, moreso than usual). The pharmacist worked hard to make sure I understood the dosage, but just how big was a spoonful? In the end, I translated the medication instructions, and then measured out the entire bottle, spoonful by spoonful, to determine the accurate dose.<\/p>\n

I turned my keys over to my hostess as I left my small apartment\/castle, and headed for Bari. The road to Bari followed a rail line, and dropped 500 m across 50 miles. A service road followed the main road. And I had a tailwind. It was glorious.<\/p>\n

A bit too fast though. I moved faster that I tracked my location. As the terrain leveled out I had more small road options. Given my speed and copious time, I wandered a bit. Sometimes lovely small roads. Sometimes dirt track through the countryside. Sometimes, well, there was that 300 m of walking through an olive grove. . .<\/p>\n

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Arriving in Bari, I hunted for a large supermarket. I ran out of peanut butter a couple of days ago, and didn’t want to risk entering Greece without a supply. I found a large shopping center, which turned out to be a mall. A large mall. I did get peanut butter. However, I wondered during that expedition whether I’d be able to find my way back to my bicycle. I’d locked up the bicycle near the obscure route I arrived, and the actual super-sized supermarket resided on the far side of a convoluted mall.<\/p>\n

In Bari I crossed my path from last year when I arrived in Bari from Montenegro. Both Bari and Brindisi have a ferry to Greece (none directly to Corfu at this point in the season darn it). I’ve been headed to Brindisi because it’s the city my wife was born in, and I wanted to get pictures of where she lived, having acquired directions from my mother-in-law. Brindisi was a two-day ride from Altamura, including another day of mountain climbing. Instead, I took a train from Bari to Brindisi. This way I can complete my loop to the coast (and reconnect to last year’s trip), have a more restful day as I recover, still visit Brindisi, yet reap the rewards for recent days climbing, all in one day.<\/p>\n

After checking into Centro Storico, I visited the two castles local to Brindisi. Both are in use by the military, which means that I can’t access them, and that taking lots of pictures isn’t the best of ideas.<\/p>\n

I have a ferry booked for tomorrow, as well as a room (particularly important as I arrive after dark). In Greece. Total distance for Italy this trip is 1,225 km according to the bicycle odometer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Later last night I decided I’d worked hard to gain my current elevation, and wanted the return on that investment. So, new plan. I feel both better and worse. The cold medication reduced my cold symptoms. And then makes me feel a bit off (yes, moreso than usual). The pharmacist worked hard to make sure … Continue reading “190528-Crisis”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-touring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3036,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}