{"id":849,"date":"2007-12-11T19:16:29","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T19:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2007\/12\/11\/uk-drivers-look-the-other-way.....\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T19:16:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T19:16:29","slug":"uk-drivers-look-the-other-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"UK Drivers look the other way&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst on my walk from Nicks offices in Media City. I came across a filling station:-<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Petrol prices\" href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/petrol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/petrol.jpg\" alt=\"Petrol prices\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"640\" height=\"248\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is at the exchange rate today:-<\/p>\n<table class=\"XEtbl_sub\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"XEenlarge\" width=\"45%\" align=\"right\">\n<h2 class=\"XE\">6.25 AED<!-- WARNING: Automated extraction of data is prohibited under the Terms of Use. --><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<td id=\"XEenlarge\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<h2 class=\"XE\">=<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<td id=\"XEenlarge\" width=\"45%\" align=\"left\">\n<h2 class=\"XE\">0.834319 GBP<!-- WARNING: Automated extraction of data is prohibited under the Terms of Use. --><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"XEenlarge\" align=\"right\">United Arab Emirates Dirhams<\/td>\n<td id=\"XEenlarge\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td id=\"XEenlarge\" align=\"left\">United Kingdom Pounds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"XEenlarge\" align=\"right\"><span class=\"XEsmall\">1 AED = 0.133491 GBP<!-- WARNING: Automated extraction of data is prohibited under the Terms of Use. --><\/span><\/td>\n<td id=\"XEenlarge\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td id=\"XEenlarge\" align=\"left\"><span class=\"XEsmall\">1 GBP = 7.49114 AED<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>or about 83 pence per gallon, Nick says, don&#8217;t forget about the free window cleaning and that you don&#8217;t have to get out of the car to get it filled up.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Office view\" href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img_0217.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img_0217.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Office view\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>I guess that&#8217;s why he has a gas guzzling\u00a0 Jeep Wrangler.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a view from his office window, with his view of the Persian Gulf, beache and the One and Only resort .(apologies the link is to a crappy flash site \ud83d\ude41 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst on my walk from Nicks offices in Media City. I came across a filling station:- That is at the exchange rate today:- 6.25 AED = 0.834319 GBP United Arab Emirates Dirhams United Kingdom Pounds 1 AED = 0.133491 GBP 1 GBP = 7.49114 AED or about 83 pence per gallon, Nick says, don&#8217;t forget [&hellip;]<\/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-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","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=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}