{"id":189,"date":"2018-05-26T14:29:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/?p=189"},"modified":"2018-05-26T14:29:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:29:29","slug":"another-channel-crossing-guines-to-liques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Another channel crossing! Guines to Liques"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='float:left;margin-right:20px;width:300px'><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MobileBlog20180526163034990.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MobileBlog20180526163034990.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MobileBlog20180526163040569.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MobileBlog20180526163040569.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MobileBlog20180526163042417.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MobileBlog20180526163042417.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MobileBlog20180526163044326.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MobileBlog20180526163044326.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MobileBlog20180526163042417.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MobileBlog20180526163042417.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> It rained in the night, not forecast but everything and everyone remained dry. The bread and croissants arrive at 8am so a lie in allows the moisture to start to clear. But not well wet clothes are packed.<br \/>After a short walk and crossing of the railway line we get to the interest of the day. A large stone column in the forest dedicated to the first aerial channel crossing by Jean Blanchard and John Jefferies in 1785 in a balloon from Dover. They landed there.<br \/>The day steadily improves getting hotter and more humid. The slightly frantic pace of the last two days slows and a pleasant walk through woods with various orchids ensues. <br \/>We eventually emerge on to a ridge about 150m above sea level ( as high as it gets round here)and have lunch overlooking the lowlands to which we descend to Liques.<br \/>Meeting up with Jane in the car in the town. She has done the shopping and after a beer we ramble on to the nice campsite 1.5km outside town.<br \/>Weather is now excellent for drying and after there last two days we need it<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&amp;q=50.77995,1.94958&amp;ll=50.77995,1.94958&amp;t=k&amp;z=16\">Link to where we are on Google Maps<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It rained in the night, not forecast but everything and everyone remained dry. The bread and croissants arrive at 8am so a lie in allows the moisture to start to clear. But not well wet clothes are packed.After a short walk and crossing of the railway line we get to the interest of the day. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/?p=189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another channel crossing! Guines to Liques&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}