{"id":11547,"date":"2013-09-02T07:52:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T06:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=11547"},"modified":"2013-09-02T07:52:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T06:52:26","slug":"pumpkin-art-swimming-at-juckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=11547","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin art &#038; swimming at Jucker&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another grand day organised by @planetjones &amp; his partner. Maybe they should get into the tourism business \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11548\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_3775.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11548\" alt=\"Pumpkin Elvis\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_3775-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_3775-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_3775.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pumpkin Elvis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today was just a train journey from the local station to Seegr\u00e3ben followed by a short but steep walk to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.juckerfarm.ch\/\"> Jucker Farmart<\/a>\u00a0and it&#8217;s fantastic models all created with straw &amp; pumpkins it reminded me a bit of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themiltonmaizemaze.co.uk\/\">Milton Maze<\/a>\u00a0at home. Their maze is however made with dwarf apple trees \ud83d\ude42 After pumpkin soup (of cause) we wandered down to Pf\u00e3ffikersee. Were to my astonishment local industry has sponsored a delightful bathing shed, toilets, diving board and a swim deck. \u00a0So a quick dip was called for, well I did have a handkerchief to dry on \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Totally amazing no dire \u00a0health &amp; safety warnings here &amp; no vandalism, if only we \u00a0had all this on the Cam, like we did when I first moved to Cambridge. Now of course all destroyed by the local vandals otherwise known as Cambridge City Council.<\/p>\n<p>Then a return to Zurich and an excellent bbq at the flat. A fitting end to an excellent weekend, probably the first \u00a0weekend with my brother since I left home in 1966 \ud83d\ude42 When he had just met his wife to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All the pictures of the <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111882957452855371846\/albums\/5918762779679398609\">day are here.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11549\" style=\"width: 753px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11549\" alt=\"Robin Hood &amp; his Sherwood Forest compatriots.\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_3784.jpg\" width=\"753\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_3784.jpg 753w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_3784-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robin Hood &amp; his Sherwood Forest compatriots.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The workers return to work, the retirees go on their cruise and now I leave Zurich to find The Danube&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another grand day organised by @planetjones &amp; his partner. Maybe they should get into the tourism business \ud83d\ude42 Today was just a train journey from the local station to Seegr\u00e3ben followed by a short but steep walk to Jucker Farmart\u00a0and it&#8217;s fantastic models all created with straw &amp; pumpkins it reminded me a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-travel-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547","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=11547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}