{"id":1905,"date":"2009-05-05T03:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2009-05-05T03:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T02:43:00","slug":"arrival-90degrees-from-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1905","title":{"rendered":"Arrival 90degrees from Cambridge."},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally, about 50 years after Stan and I marvelled at huge tortoises, I’ve arrived at The Galapagos islands interestingly at the same place that Darwin landed t 200 years ago! I guess better late than never \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

This afternoon I did a little walk by the cultural centre which is full of profoundly depressing stuff about the slaughter of the local tortoises to provide oil for lamps \ud83d\ude41 and the maltreatment of prisoners ( it was a prison colony for a while) plus the introduction of non native animals oh dear we homo sapiens are a stupid lot!<\/p>\n

Here is a map and some pictures of the walk.
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San Cristobal, Galapagos<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Now the debate in my head is how long to stay, I’m booked out on a flight on Friday but I think that will be changed \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

My problem is that I do really love travelling just hanging out in cafes listening to other folks and the ocean…<\/p>\n

Maybe I can turn Sally<\/a> into a traveller too, sounds s though she is getting fed up living where she is at the minute …….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally, about 50 years after Stan and I marvelled at huge tortoises, I’ve arrived at The Galapagos islands interestingly at the same place that Darwin landed t 200 years ago! I guess better late than never \ud83d\ude42 This afternoon I did a little walk by the cultural centre which is full of profoundly depressing stuff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","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=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}