{"id":2536,"date":"2023-06-09T15:09:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T14:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eszter-maura.eu\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2023-06-09T15:09:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T14:09:45","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eszter-maura.eu\/nl\/the-travel-chronicles-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"","raw":""},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"author":1,"featured_media":2538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_en_post_content":"

\u00c1guilas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thing is, lots of cycling days are quite uneventful. You get up, get out of zombie mode, fold your tent, get and eat some food,<\/p>\n

\u00c1guilas \u2013 Puerto de Mazarr\u00f3n, 58,7 km, 669m<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

cycle,<\/p>\n

stop for a drink, a coffee, a bathroom or for lunch, cycle some more, then<\/p>\n

unfold and pitch your tent, wash yourself, your clothes, then find, cook and eat some food, and the day is pretty much gone.<\/p>\n

Some days, you\u2019re fixated on your goal.<\/p>\n

Puerto de Mazar\u00f3n \u2013 Cartagena, 35,5 km, 479m<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some days, you might stop for a bit of tourism, or to take a quick dip in the sea<\/p>\n

\u2013 and some days, it might be the most beautiful place you\u2019ve ever seen, and you may realise that it makes zero sense to keep pushing and tell yourself you\u2019ll stop at he camping and go swimming afterwards,<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cartagena \u2013 San Javier, 51,9 km, 416m<\/strong><\/p>\n

because you\u2019re hot and tired now, plus you\u2019ll never know if there\u2019ll be a storm by that time, or if the camping is even on the seaside, or if the pool everyone on google writes amazing reviews about will be closed (it will, of course).<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

San Javier \u2013 Murcia, 51km, 394m<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some days, you get soaked in the rain.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Ever since I\u2019ve gotten that heat stroke (or what), I\u2019ve been weak and prone to headaches, and for all I\u2019m cutting my daily distances short and optimising for uphill meters, I\u2019ve been exhausted. So I stopped for a rest day in Murcia \u2013 and spent my first night entirely unable to sleep due to creaking beds and snoring roommates, then walked about town on four hours of sleep and as much coffee, if measured in cups, plus a whole different sort of headache than the days before,<\/p>\n

even as I did my best to enjoy the place.<\/p>\n

Murcia \u2013 Guardamar del Segura, 58,4 km, 22m<\/strong><\/p>\n

Loneliness sets in, like the ever-repeating silent blocks of summery ghost-towns on the coast.<\/p>\n

Company is largely up to good luck when travelling alone, not that I\u2019m the best company myself, or have much patience for others, when exhausted and with a headache.<\/p>\n

Guardamar del Segura \u2013 Elche \u2013 Alicante, 48,1 km, 230m<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have lots of friends in these regions, old and new, and they all have their own lives, as is normal, so I have no right or reason to be resentful when that means they can\u2019t make time for me. Cycle travel is weirdly constraining, anyway: I\u2019m in this place, now, for this long, and move fast, but can\u2019t do a detour longer than 10-15 kms, and that\u2019s pushing it.<\/p>\n

Alicante<\/strong><\/p>\n

As it turns out, all it takes to revive me is a good night\u2019s sleep, a nice swim in the sea, and a horchata with just one friend who is willing, able \u00a0and happy to see me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","_en_post_name":"the-travel-chronicles-week-5","_en_post_excerpt":"","_en_post_title":"The Travel Chronicles, week 5","_fr_post_content":"","_fr_post_name":"","_fr_post_excerpt":"","_fr_post_title":"","_nl_post_content":"","_nl_post_name":"","_nl_post_excerpt":"","_nl_post_title":"","edit_language":"nl","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-blog","9":"post-with-thumbnail","10":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eszter-maura.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/PXL_20230529_175233288-1.jpg?fit=2268%2C1772&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KP79-EU","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eszter-maura.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eszter-maura.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eszter-maura.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eszter-maura.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eszter-maura.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eszter-maura.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/eszter-maura.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eszter-maura.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eszter-maura.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eszter-maura.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eszter-maura.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}