{"id":18473,"date":"2019-05-15T10:04:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T09:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=18473"},"modified":"2019-05-15T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T09:04:59","slug":"traveling-to-ponferrada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=18473","title":{"rendered":"Traveling to Ponferrada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of a long and exhausting day starting at 05.50 leaving home and finishing at 23.26\u00a0 arriving at the Hostal Nirvana in Ponferrada with a side trip to Porto for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Pedometer app I managed 8.5 miles and 28 stairs.<\/p>\n<p>It all went very smoothly apart from losing my hat at Stansted Airport necessitating a quick trip to Decathlon in Porto to buy a replacement and a set of walking poles. Could have been worse as I thought I had put my bag in the &#8216;secure&#8217; lockers at the airport, however on my return the door was wide open \ud83d\ude41 but very fortunately, the bag was still intact. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I met up with my new found walking pals in the airport OK although the other Geoff is struggling with his Achilles so will he walk or not?<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant Colin recommended in Porto,\u00a0 A Grada,\u00a0 was excellent and I chatted to a couple, an Irish lady and Greek man who had met when they were tour operators ages ago, a holiday romance that lasted.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to sleep in due to the room being in total darkness with the shutters closed, others were moaning about the AC not working but I was <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/TLrV8Q\">zonked out<\/a> all night!<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few pics.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Invierno Day1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/geoffjones\/albums\/72157705111415252\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/32907585907_10328572f7_c.jpg\" alt=\"Invierno Day1\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of a long and exhausting day starting at 05.50 leaving home and finishing at 23.26\u00a0 arriving at the Hostal Nirvana in Ponferrada with a side trip to Porto for lunch. According to the Pedometer app I managed 8.5 miles and 28 stairs. It all went very smoothly apart from losing my hat at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,31,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camino","category-travel-blogging","category-walks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18473","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=18473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}