{"id":741,"date":"2007-10-23T21:57:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T21:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjon.s423.sureserver.com\/walks\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T21:57:58","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T21:57:58","slug":"walks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?page_id=741","title":{"rendered":"Walks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Solvitur Ambulando<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/images\/yhaplate.jpg\" alt=\"YHA 1934 Conference Plate\" width=\"205\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Youth Hostel Association commemorative plate was my fathers, obtained from him visiting the International Conference held in England in 1934. My father was a very early member of the YHA (member number 1774 in 1932).<\/p>\n<p>He and his mother also became wardens of Overton Hall Youth Hostel, Ashover, Derbyshire in 1934 where they hosted a dinner to the International delegates attending the 3rd conference on the 20th October 1934. A copy of the menu can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/geoffjones\/sets\/72157600856912256\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>. It is signed by the delegates including the founder of the Youth Hostel movement  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Schirrmann\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Schirrmann<\/a><\/p>\n<p><SCRIPT charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.co.uk\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;MarketPlace=GB&#038;ID=V20070822\/GB\/wwwgeoffjonec-21\/8001\/a7032f46-9b93-41fd-b49e-d93302575c59\"> <\/SCRIPT> <NOSCRIPT><A HREF=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.co.uk\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;MarketPlace=GB&#038;ID=V20070822%2FGB%2Fwwwgeoffjonec-21%2F8001%2Fa7032f46-9b93-41fd-b49e-d93302575c59&#038;Operation=NoScript\">Amazon.co.uk Widgets<\/A><\/NOSCRIPT><\/p>\n<p>Since my retirement from Cortex Controllers it is my intention to spend more time walking. I would really like to walk the E2 from Ireland to Nice. The E2 connects my birthplace to where I live now in Cambridge and my second home in Les Gets France, so is particularly appealing to me.<\/p>\n<h2>Geoff&#8217;s long distance walks.<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Camino from SJPP to Finisterre and Muxia, 550 miles in 28 days<\/li>\n<li>A Coast to Coast walk from St Bees to Robins Hood Bay, 190 miles in 7 days.<\/li>\n<li>The Pennine Way from Edale to Kirk Yetholm, 270miles in 15days.<\/li>\n<li>The GR5 Lake Geneva to Nice segment 356 miles in 23 days.<\/li>\n<li>The GR20 from Calenzana to Conca in Corsica, 110miles in 14 days with <a href=\"http:\/\/sallyinnorfolk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sally<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The GR10 from Hendaye to Luchon in France, 220miles in 21 days.<\/li>\n<li>The West Highland way, Glasgow to Fort William, 97 miles in 6 days. with <a href=\"http:\/\/sallyinnorfolk.com\">Sally<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solvitur Ambulando This Youth Hostel Association commemorative plate was my fathers, obtained from him visiting the International Conference held in England in 1934. My father was a very early member of the YHA (member number 1774 in 1932). He and his mother also became wardens of Overton Hall Youth Hostel, Ashover, Derbyshire in 1934 where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-741","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}