{"id":18979,"date":"2019-10-29T23:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=18979"},"modified":"2019-10-29T23:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T23:00:49","slug":"a-little-bit-of-escapism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=18979","title":{"rendered":"A little bit of escapism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-29-at-22.54.29.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18981\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-29-at-22.54.29-300x239.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-29-at-22.54.29-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-29-at-22.54.29-1024x816.png 1024w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-29-at-22.54.29-768x612.png 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-29-at-22.54.29.png 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m leaving Boris in his proverbial ditch and trying to catch up a little on my cycling which is currently 3,000 miles down on last year. This escapism was bought about by this little post which caught my eye:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-29-at-22.25.34.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18980\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-29-at-22.25.34-300x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-29-at-22.25.34-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-29-at-22.25.34-768x396.png 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-29-at-22.25.34.png 998w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Particularly the bit about no winter! So coupled with me getting a place on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcrainmaker.com\/2019\/10\/winter-house-registration.html\">DC Rainmakers open evening<\/a> in Amsterdam a plan began to form \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Today was the first stage of that plan, biking to Harwich so I could get my favourite overnight ferry to The Hook allowing me to bike to Schipol Airport tomorrow where apparently I can get a cardboard box and pack my bike up at the airport to go to Bangkok tomorrow night \ud83d\ude42 and then returning in time for Ray&#8217;s do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/2826779470\">The ride<\/a> was uneventful apart from all the regular cafes being closed and the really cold wind, offset in the day by the sun but quickly cooling down in darkness. Unfortunately I had accidentally booked on tomorrows ferry \ud83d\ude41 but for \u00a39 it was quickly sorted.<\/p>\n<p>I replaced the unreliable Lumotec dyno light last night and the new SON light seems superb so hopefully, I can venture into the deepest night now plus the new 35mm tyres are fantastic on the muddy rutted Essex lanes.<\/p>\n<p>Now to bed!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m leaving Boris in his proverbial ditch and trying to catch up a little on my cycling which is currently 3,000 miles down on last year. This escapism was bought about by this little post which caught my eye: Particularly the bit about no winter! So coupled with me getting a place on DC Rainmakers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-south-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979","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=18979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}