{"id":303,"date":"2015-09-26T21:39:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewell.id.au\/Europe2015\/?p=303"},"modified":"2015-09-27T18:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T18:00:03","slug":"quiet-drive-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewell.id.au\/Europe2015\/uncategorized\/quiet-drive-in-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet drive in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fairly quiet day. Emily and I took the bus into central London first up to pick up our hire car. Fortunately the roads were very quiet and we got back to the apartment without incident. <\/p>\n

Getting out of London was hard work. It was supposed to take about an hour to get to Hawkhurst, a little village in Kent. It took three. Traffic was very stop-start out of London. Then we made the mistake of getting off the motorway at Tunbridge Wells for lunch and a toilet. After tangling with the local traffic for half an hour we got back onto the motorway without either.<\/p>\n

Lunch finally at the Royal Oak Hotel in Hawkhurst, then we ducked off to Bodiam Castle for a quick look around. This was the first ‘real’ castle that Michelle and I saw on our 1989 tour of the UK. We didn’t plan to see it, the castle turned out to be only a few miles down the road from where we are staying. We got caught out a bit as we thought it was one of the ‘free’ sites on our English Heritage pass. It wasn’t. Bugger.<\/p>\n

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Bodiam Castle<\/figcaption><\/figure> <\/p>\n

We are staying two days in a little farmhouse a couple of miles out of Hawkhurst. Very nice, the girls are taken with the old claw-footed bathtub. Tomorrow’s provisions will include some bubble bath.<\/p>\n

Nothing more to report. Bye for now. Steve J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fairly quiet day. Emily and I took the bus into central London first up to pick up our hire car. Fortunately the roads were very quiet and we got back to the apartment without incident.  Getting out of London was hard work. It was supposed to take about an hour to get to Hawkhurst, a … Continue reading Quiet drive in the country<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewell.id.au\/Europe2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewell.id.au\/Europe2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewell.id.au\/Europe2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewell.id.au\/Europe2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewell.id.au\/Europe2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewell.id.au\/Europe2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewell.id.au\/Europe2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewell.id.au\/Europe2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewell.id.au\/Europe2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewell.id.au\/Europe2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}