{"id":438,"date":"2017-09-11T17:18:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tandem.lynas.info\/?p=438"},"modified":"2017-09-15T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T15:39:29","slug":"ready-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tandem.lynas.info\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Ready to go&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve arrived at our starting point, Breda, in the Netherlands, after having breakfast in France and lunch in Belgium &#x1f60e;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a busy few days. We attended Peter and Sally&#8217;s fabulous wedding on Saturday (complete with llamas), a wonderful day of celebration with a wonderful couple, congratulations and much love to you both. It was a long drive yesterday down to Dunkirk, where we stayed in a very cool hotel, staffed it seemed entirely by machines. We ate last night on the Princess Elizabeth, one of the &#8216;little ships&#8217; which evacuated soldiers from the beaches in 1940, now beautifully restored as a restaurant. After a visit to the museum this morning we headed east, stopped in Antwerp for a quick lunch, and then on to Breda where we assembled the tandem and rode to our hotel. The Netherlands is, of course, a very cycling-positive country, and the tandem is spending the night in a special secure storage (&#8216;Fietsenstalling&#8217;)&#8217; with a very nice man in charge.<\/p>\n<p>And tomorrow we ride.<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re here, we&#8217;re hoping to tick off some icons of Dutch culture:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tulips (well, not actual flowering ones, obviously)<\/li>\n<li>Windmills<\/li>\n<li>Clogs (mouse optional)<\/li>\n<li>A ball of Edam<\/li>\n<li>Dykes<\/li>\n<li>Waffles (and\/or pancakes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tomorrow we strike north for Kinderdijk, where windmills aplenty are promised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve arrived at our starting point, Breda, in the Netherlands, after having breakfast in France and lunch in Belgium &#x1f60e; It&#8217;s been a busy few days. We attended Peter and Sally&#8217;s fabulous wedding on Saturday (complete with llamas), a wonderful day of celebration with a wonderful couple, congratulations and much love to you both. It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tandem.lynas.info\/?p=438\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ready to go&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paXphT-74","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tandem.lynas.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tandem.lynas.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tandem.lynas.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tandem.lynas.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tandem.lynas.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tandem.lynas.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"http:\/\/tandem.lynas.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tandem.lynas.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tandem.lynas.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tandem.lynas.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}