{"id":11531,"date":"2013-08-29T21:50:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T20:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=11531"},"modified":"2013-08-29T21:50:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T20:50:31","slug":"biel-to-aarau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=11531","title":{"rendered":"Biel to Aarau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11532\" alt=\"Site_Stats_\u2039_Geoff_Jones_\u2014_WordPress\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Site_Stats_\u2039_Geoff_Jones_\u2014_WordPress-1024x321.png\" width=\"625\" height=\"195\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Obviously my bike ride is loosing interest to my followers and in fact the readership is now back to folks doing searches that bring up my old posts. e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2012\/05\/24\/40-days-of-wear-on-scarpa-hiking-boots\/\">Scarpa hiking boots<\/a> received as many hits yesterday as my latest post and my <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2007\/04\/20\/silva-pedometer-step-counter-instruction-setup\/\">Silva Pedomete<\/a>r post from 6 years ago not far behind.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11534\" alt=\"IMG_3562\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_3562-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_3562-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_3562.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Enough of such nonsense. Today was a wunderbar ride especially the section from Biel to Olten following the River Aar. Many cafes, beautiful buildings &amp; bridges. The route is very widely used by groups of cyclists (although don&#8217;t expect a nod or a danke from any of them). The weather was perfect crisp &amp; sunny with a good mixture of riding surfaces from cobbles in the towns to gravel \u00a0and ultra smooth inline skating tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The bit near H\u00f6fli was terrifying as the road gets squeezed between the river &amp; a rock face, so as always it&#8217;s the cycleway that disappears first, \u00a0plus you have to cross over on a blind bend \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Tonights hotel is the Hotel Argovia which is an annexe to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorellhotels.com\/en\/home.asp\">Sorell hotel <\/a>outside the railway station. A novel feature is that on my bedroom door it says that my room is 14.7m2 , Window area is 2.4m2 and the bed area is 2.54m2!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the Strava map for today:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11535\" alt=\"Strava_Ride___Biel_to_Aaraue_and_Picasa_3-3\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Strava_Ride___Biel_to_Aaraue_and_Picasa_3-3-1024x519.png\" width=\"625\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Strava_Ride___Biel_to_Aaraue_and_Picasa_3-3-1024x519.png 1024w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Strava_Ride___Biel_to_Aaraue_and_Picasa_3-3-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Strava_Ride___Biel_to_Aaraue_and_Picasa_3-3-768x389.png 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Strava_Ride___Biel_to_Aaraue_and_Picasa_3-3.png 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and the pictures <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111882957452855371846\/albums\/5917611976924512593\">are here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously my bike ride is loosing interest to my followers and in fact the readership is now back to folks doing searches that bring up my old posts. e.g. Scarpa hiking boots received as many hits yesterday as my latest post and my Silva Pedometer post from 6 years ago not far behind. Enough of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-personal","category-travel-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=11531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}