{"id":2987,"date":"2012-04-10T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2012-04-10T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T18:47:00","slug":"ready-steady-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=2987","title":{"rendered":"Ready Steady Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?attachment_id=2988\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2988\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2988\" title=\"South West Coast Path starting sculpture\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1040-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"South West Coast Path starting sculpture\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1040-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_1040.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>After finalising my 10kg of packing it was a pleasant day of travelling on trains &amp; a bus I arrived at Minehead in the late afternoon. I&#8217;m staying at The Quay Inn, enjoying it&#8217;s free WiFi. The South West Coast Way \u00a0starting sculpture is about 50 metres away and my room overlooks the sea, all very pleasant if somewhat expensive (\u00a350 a night for b&amp;b).<\/p>\n<p>Preoccupations recommended Toucan Wholefoods so I stocked up on trail mix \ud83d\ude42 &amp; had a scone with tea. \u00a0Then of to Morrisons to stock up with sardines, tomatoes, \u00a0Mars bars, malt loaf, hot cross buns, bread baps &amp; a banana, So should be OK for at least a couple of days \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The T mobile 3G signal started to rapidly degrade after Newbury on the train. I had been listening to di.fm in perfect quality before that. Down here the signal is terrible and according to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.t-mobile.co.uk\/services\/coverage\/street-check\/?WT.mc_id=ON_TM_Deep_streetcheck&amp;WT.tsrc=OfflineDeeplink\"> the coverage charts<\/a> likely to get much worse \ud83d\ude41 Whereas walking The Lycian Way in so called backward Turkey we had perfect 3G most of the way with TurkCell.<\/p>\n<p>Before I set off I signed upto <a href=\"http:\/\/giffgaff.com\/\">GiffGaff<\/a> as O2 coverage seemed better. However, I just plugged the SIM in and I&#8217;m not allowed to tether the Air \ud83d\ude41 selecting the option takes you to a 404 page not found on the O2 website). So it looks as though I will be restricted to private WiFi points.<\/p>\n<p>Weather wise it&#8217;s looking OK nice &amp; cold but sunny, at least for now. Breakfast is at 8am so I will be on my merry way to Porlock Weir (4.5 or 5.5 hours) or maybe even closer to Lynton (5.5 hours)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finalising my 10kg of packing it was a pleasant day of travelling on trains &amp; a bus I arrived at Minehead in the late afternoon. I&#8217;m staying at The Quay Inn, enjoying it&#8217;s free WiFi. The South West Coast Way \u00a0starting sculpture is about 50 metres away and my room overlooks the sea, all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-blog","category-travel-blogging","category-walks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","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=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}