{"id":1322,"date":"2015-10-19T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2015-10-19T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T21:37:00","slug":"days-1-and-2-one-does-not-simply-fly-into-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/10\/19\/days-1-and-2-one-does-not-simply-fly-into-england\/","title":{"rendered":"One does not simply fly into England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually I lie. We did simply fly into England, after a 23 hour journey from Australia. I then spent several hours in a hotel room becoming disgusted with the Android WordPress app. By the following night I had decided to use Facebook as a journal to record immediate thoughts and impressions. So part of what follows will be excerpts from that with other learnings etc. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So an annotated version of my first journal entry reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Made it here&#8230; eventually. Leaving London we got lost on a ring-road and unknowingly drove south instead of north. Realised our error at Hastings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-19_7-17-56.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1324\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-19_7-17-56.jpg\" alt=\"2015-10-19_7-17-56\" width=\"462\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-19_7-17-56.jpg 647w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-19_7-17-56-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So then drove north and was unable to find the M40. Me being me thought it a good idea to try to navigate by the sun and so eventually we found ourselves driving for hours on tiny country roads til we eventually struck a town called Bedford.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-19_7-22-07.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1325\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-19_7-22-07.jpg\" alt=\"2015-10-19_7-22-07\" width=\"458\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-19_7-22-07.jpg 659w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-19_7-22-07-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-19_7-22-07-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caved in and bought a map.<\/p>\n<p>Next challenge: Nicole&#8217;s map reading and navigation skills&#8230; she<span class=\"text_exposed_hide\">&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> doesn&#8217;t have any. Oh well, who am I to criticize? Every time the shadows hit the road from the wrong direction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually I lie. We did simply fly into England, after a 23 hour journey from Australia. I then spent several hours in a hotel room becoming disgusted with the Android WordPress app. By the following night I had decided to use Facebook as a journal to record immediate thoughts and impressions. So part of what follows will be excerpts from that with other learnings etc. \ud83d\ude42 So an annotated version<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,56],"tags":[32,55],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-soulthief","post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-magic-science-and-the-arcane","category-travel","tag-review","tag-travel","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20150907-DSC_0455.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}