{"id":608,"date":"2006-07-08T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjon.s423.sureserver.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2006-07-08T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-08T08:05:00","slug":"paddys-walk-london-to-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Paddys walk &#8211; London to Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/images\/RB8_070706_013-757408.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/images\/RB8_070706_013-744709.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>   Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/paddymorris\">Paddy Morris<\/a> tucking into a well deserved meal at Anthony&#8217;s birthday bbq last night, here in Les Gets. Paddy  is about a third of the way on his walk from Trafalgar square to Istanbul which he started on May 8th 2006, yesterday he had walked into Morzine where he is taking a weeks rest before crossing the alps into Italy then cutting across to Trieste and downwards to Istanbul, hoping to arrive  their in November.<br \/>His partner, Andy Ward, broke his leg a few weeks ago but is hoping to rejoin Paddy in Morzine.<br \/>Amazing tales of generosity of people met on his way and the crappiness of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.fr\">IGN<\/a> maps (resulting in him walking for two days with no food as the promised villages were only  hamlets!). Made me want to set off and join him.<br \/>Interestingly only the British Red Cross replied positively to his emails prior to the trip, even though he wasnt asking for any money!<br \/>Amazingly his father lives up the road from me in Cambridge.&nbsp;<img src='https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is Paddy Morris tucking into a well deserved meal at Anthony&#8217;s birthday bbq last night, here in Les Gets. Paddy is about a third of the way on his walk from Trafalgar square to Istanbul which he started on May 8th 2006, yesterday he had walked into Morzine where he is taking a weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geoff-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}