{"id":17993,"date":"2018-07-26T11:08:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T10:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=17993"},"modified":"2018-07-26T11:08:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T10:08:25","slug":"relaxing-in-cheboksary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=17993","title":{"rendered":"Relaxing in Cheboksary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 26 July 2018<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent the last three days relaxing in <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenspahotel.ru\/eng\/\">The Garden Hotel in Cheboksary<\/a> I&#8217;ve not even looked at the bike instead I&#8217;ve spent time in the lovely empty pool and reading the first novel written by Martina Cole after listening to her &amp; her fascinating rags to riches story on Desert Island Discs whilst biking. I found Dangerous Lady an excellent read &amp; have now downloaded her second novel Ladykill.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I made the decision to get tonight&#8217;s overnight train to Moscow, since apparently, to go anywhere in Russia you have to start in Moscow! I&#8217;m still debating whether to go to the source of The Volga but it&#8217;s looking quite complicated with one train every few days type services \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>If all else fails I will just hang out in Moscow and do some mini tours around there &amp; try to make contact with Vladimir and The Russian Cyclists Touring Club as I would still like one of their cycling jerseys \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed my stay in The Garden Hotel although I wonder if it&#8217;s becoming accepted now everywhere to listen to videos etc on your smartphone s speaker \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"405\" width=\"590\" allowtransparency=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/1728983386\/embed\/07017636c62fcb9119dfb593b28f56e60feaea10\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 26 July 2018 I&#8217;ve spent the last three days relaxing in The Garden Hotel in Cheboksary I&#8217;ve not even looked at the bike instead I&#8217;ve spent time in the lovely empty pool and reading the first novel written by Martina Cole after listening to her &amp; her fascinating rags to riches story on Desert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993","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=17993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}