{"id":2595,"date":"2010-07-27T00:32:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T23:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2010-07-27T00:32:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T23:32:11","slug":"spay-to-cologne-koln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=2595","title":{"rendered":"Spay to Cologne (K\u00f6ln)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the first day I encountered rain. It was very heavy in the night but when I set off it had turned to drizzle. Fascinating to start off next to a foundry that made huge boat propellers bought back memories of my time at Renishaw ironworks fettling shop. Its interesting the amount of heavy industry you see everywhere alongside the Rhine.<\/p>\n<p>I then cycled past many attractive villages before going through the German Koblenz,which was quite disappointing as the riverside area is going through a major development programme, so I quickly moved on over The Mosel.<\/p>\n<p>I came across one of the few reminders of WW2 at Ludendorff with the remains of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ludendorff_bridge\">famous railway bridge<\/a> that allowed allied troops &amp; tanks to cross for 10 days before its collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Then to complete the days 76.6 miles at 10.1mph I arrived in Cologne. Here the waterfront has been redeveloped in much as the same way as the latest developments I saw on my Thames Walk on The South Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the day Everytrail and photos:-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\/view_trip.php?trip_id=717280\">Spay to Cologne (Koln) at EveryTrail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plan your trips with EveryTrail iPhone Travel Guides<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the first day I encountered rain. It was very heavy in the night but when I set off it had turned to drizzle. Fascinating to start off next to a foundry that made huge boat propellers bought back memories of my time at Renishaw ironworks fettling shop. Its interesting the amount of heavy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biking","category-personal","category-rhine-biking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","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=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}