including the World Masters Athletics Championship in Porto Alegre, Brazil<\/p>\n
13 Oct – 27 Oct 13: Porto Alegre – stayed at the Mecure Manhattan<\/span> Ralph competed in:<\/p>\n 5,000m Racewalk (track) – 1st M70-74 Population \u2013 200 million<\/p>\n Language – Portuguese<\/p>\n The land of coffee \u2013 no way \u2013 at least, not the way we<\/i> like it.<\/p>\n The land of futebol (soccer) \u2013 yes, yes, yes.<\/p>\n Absolutely no semblance of racism in this enormous melting pot.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Population \u2013 1.5 million<\/p>\n Location \u2013 in the southern-most state, bordering Argentina to the west, Uruguay to the south. The city is located on a peninsula beside a delta\/enormous lake flowing from the junction of five rivers.<\/p>\n Not tourist oriented. Difficult to find any \u2018souveniers\u2019.<\/p>\n Only one rainy day \u2013 had to be the 20km racewalk day, huh!<\/p>\n Good vibes all round. Delighful, polite, helpful locals.<\/p>\n Ovatine milk shakes at the main stadium [CETE] – delicious!!!<\/p>\n Mecure Manhattan hotel breakfasts \u2013 excellent! . . . well, except when there were no \u2018breakfast tea\u2019 bags.<\/p>\n Venhois food court \u2013 great value, and those Rafaello ice-creams!!!<\/p>\n Ralph found a scout shop near the hotel \u2013 met a delightful, lively, rover scout, Carolina, and very helpful scout shop staff. Dawn bought a scout cap (and wore it everywhere) and some scout earrings.<\/p>\n Once waited for a bus to return from the main stadium to the hotel, for four hours!<\/p>\n Plenty of police \u2013 state, federal, military \u2013 practising for the World Cup (futebol), and the Olympics. Many on horseback \u2013 this State is the centre of Gaucho culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our experiences and photos of Brazil including the World Masters Athletics Championship in Porto Alegre, Brazil 13 Oct – 27 Oct 13: Porto Alegre – stayed at the Mecure Manhattan 28 Oct – 31 Oct 13: Copacabana – stayed at the Windsor Plaza 1 Nov – 3 Nov 13: Igua\u00e7u – stayed at the Viale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cadreconsulting.biz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cadreconsulting.biz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cadreconsulting.biz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cadreconsulting.biz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cadreconsulting.biz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/cadreconsulting.biz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/cadreconsulting.biz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cadreconsulting.biz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cadreconsulting.biz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ffolder&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n28 Oct – 31 Oct 13: Copacabana – stayed at the Windsor Plaza<\/span>
\n1 Nov – 3 Nov 13: Igua\u00e7u – stayed at the Viale Cataratas<\/span><\/p>\nXX World Masters Athletics Championships Stadia<\/h3>\n
\nA comfortable win in warm conditions, but wary of additional entries for 10km and 20km<\/em><\/span>
\n10km Racewalk (road) – 1st M70-74 plus 1st Team M65-69
\nAnother comfortable win in hot conditions, but the 2km course is about 90m too long!! That’s an extra 450m on the 10km race<\/em>.<\/span>
\n20km Racewalk (road) – 1st M70-74 plus 1st Team M65-69
\nA more trying win in hot and, near the end, wet conditions, but the 2km course is still about 90m too long!! Requests for a re-measure after the 10km were brushed aside. The silver medallist, Edmund Shillabeer (aka ‘Bob-a-Pint’), is a veterinarian from Bristol, and a delightful competitor [in the photo taken at the medals presentation]<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nBrazil:<\/h3>\n
Porto Alegre:<\/h3>\n
Porto Alegre moments:<\/h3>\n