{"id":14386,"date":"2015-11-04T21:56:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=14386"},"modified":"2015-11-04T21:56:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:56:16","slug":"made-it-to-nottingham-walking-from-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=14386","title":{"rendered":"Made it to Nottingham walking from London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it&#8217;s been 140 days since my last update and those shiny new shoes in my last post are now worn out and replaced with the identical model but different colour! \u00a0The other items have all survived.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14387\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14387\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mountsorrel_to_Nottingham___Hike___Strava.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14387 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mountsorrel_to_Nottingham___Hike___Strava-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"Mountsorrel_to_Nottingham___Hike___Strava\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mountsorrel_to_Nottingham___Hike___Strava-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mountsorrel_to_Nottingham___Hike___Strava.jpg 545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getting around The Trent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I did make it to Nottingham on the canals, all on lovely paths apart from the section when you hit The Trent and you are forced to make a tortuous detour to Sawley the nearest road bridge. \u00a0Even though there is a lock with a bridge much closer but alas not accessible as you can see from my map. The scouts should set up a ferry service from their campsite.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14388\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14388\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1-IMG_3868.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14388\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1-IMG_3868-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lock camping\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1-IMG_3868-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1-IMG_3868-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1-IMG_3868.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lock camping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From Blisworth I walked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/327376643\">19 miles to Crick on the 17th June<\/a>\u00a0the following day I did the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/328093346\">26 miles to Fleckney\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0and a camping night on the smooth grass by a lock, followed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/328093346\">14 mile walk into Leicester <\/a>and a train home for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>On the 23rd I returned to Leicester and did the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/331469368\">12 miles to MountSorrel<\/a>\u00a0followed by a storming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/331469368\">31 miler to Nottingham <\/a>and a good night&#8217;s sleep at Stephen&#8217;s house marking the end of this little hike.<\/p>\n<p>Overall a good walk remarkably virtually traffic free. Especially good for me when recovering from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camurology.org.uk\/laser-prostate-surgery\/\">HoLEP o<\/a>peration and having to pee every few miles. At least all that is behind me now and I can start getting more adventurous again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it&#8217;s been 140 days since my last update and those shiny new shoes in my last post are now worn out and replaced with the identical model but different colour! \u00a0The other items have all survived. I did make it to Nottingham on the canals, all on lovely paths apart from the section when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,30,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-union-canal","category-travel-blog","category-walks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386","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=14386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}