{"id":84,"date":"2016-07-22T21:25:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T20:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/?p=84"},"modified":"2016-07-25T13:27:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T12:27:42","slug":"5-london-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/2016\/07\/22\/5-london-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"(5) London Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday and we are now on our own, leaving all the rallies behind. &nbsp;We have a dream run up to London on the M5 &amp; M6. &nbsp;Tomtom said 3 hours and that&#8217;s what it took, well until we reached London and got around by Euston Road. &nbsp;We then began to crawl very slowly. &nbsp;Another nice hot day and we got to the hotel around 1:30, I dropped Margaret off there and went to drop the car off at St Pancras Station. &nbsp;Back into the crawl and the first time around I missed the bloody place. &nbsp;No signage at all and nearly an hour for another loop. &nbsp;I had a bit of discussion about some damage to the wheels but got away with only a 5 pound surcharge because he didn&#8217;t know how to remove it. &nbsp;I searched out the Eurostar departure point and a 20 minute walk back to the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>We headed out for a walk around, stopping for drinks and just enjoying the ambiance. &nbsp;All the pubs are chocker and spilling out over the footpaths. &nbsp;It was still very warm. &nbsp;We ended up down along the Thames. &nbsp;Caught the Underground back up to Euston and had something to eat at &#8220;All Bar One&#8221; where we had a drink earlier and headed back to the hotel feeling very tired. &nbsp;The Alarm was set for 5am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday and we are now on our own, leaving all the rallies behind. &nbsp;We have a dream run up to London on the M5 &amp; M6. &nbsp;Tomtom said 3 hours and that&#8217;s what it took, well until we reached London and got around by Euston Road. &nbsp;We then began to crawl very slowly. &nbsp;Another nice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hailes.co.nz\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}