{"id":15404,"date":"2016-10-07T21:14:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=15404"},"modified":"2016-10-07T21:14:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:14:22","slug":"first-1000-mile-europe-trip-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=15404","title":{"rendered":"First 1000 mile Europe trip roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15405\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-07-at-21.51.34.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15405\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-07-at-21.51.34-300x297.png\" alt=\"The first 1,000 miles of biking.(Sea crossings extra)\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first 1,000 miles of biking.(Sea crossings extra)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve now cycled 1,051 miles on this latest trip and ascended 31,615 feet according to Strava. The elevation gain is slightly more than one Everest.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve cycled\u00a0on18 days in the 26 days since I left home.Giving an average of 58 miles per day and 1,756 feetof ascent. The missing days were travelling\u00a0to and fro Cambridge\/Kings Lynn<\/p>\n<p>So far it&#8217;s been amazingly\u00a0enjoyable with good weather apart from the Southerly headwind and a jhalf day of rain.<\/p>\n<p>Spain seems to be a great place for touring with some very inexpensive places to stay and lots of accommodation and bars.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I continue towards Valencia which I should reach on Sunday. For some reason ferries to Ibiza are half the price than from Denia even though the crossing is nearly twice as long.<\/p>\n<p>Once on Ibiza I aim to tour the island and maybe to go to a all nighter or two, if the clubs are still open. Plus I&#8217;ve got to find somewhere to leave the bike for when I go home to take the twelve of us\u00a0to Butlins \ud83d\ude42 Then I&#8217;m returning with Sally so she can see the delights of Ibiza and and some of Valencia for a few days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve now cycled 1,051 miles on this latest trip and ascended 31,615 feet according to Strava. The elevation gain is slightly more than one Everest. I&#8217;ve cycled\u00a0on18 days in the 26 days since I left home.Giving an average of 58 miles per day and 1,756 feetof ascent. The missing days were travelling\u00a0to and fro Cambridge\/Kings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15404","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=15404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}