{"id":1773,"date":"2015-07-27T16:12:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T16:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2015-07-27T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T16:12:32","slug":"dordogne-by-bmw-1200gs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/dordogne-by-bmw-1200gs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dordogne by BMW 1200gs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow I leave for my ninth motorcycle trip. I&#8217;m heading down to South(ish) west France, to the Dordogne, camping for the most part (apart from two nights at a friend&#8217;s house in La rochelle). Since my last trip to the Black Forrest, I have a new bike, new luggage, a new GPS (I bought it with the bike), new bluetooth headset and even new prescription sun glasses non polarising &#8211; so I can read the GPS screen. What could possibly go wrong? Well, the weather for one thing. I ought to publish the dates I go camping so that everyone else can make a point of staying at home. Its blustery and raining on and off today and some sailings from Portsmouth have been cancelled today due to bad weather.<br \/>\nThis clever little map makes it all look so calm:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/?attachment_id=1781\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1781\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1781\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-27-at-16.31.07.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-07-27 at 16.31.07\" width=\"1004\" height=\"789\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Still, supplies have been renewed, the bags are packed,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/?attachment_id=1784\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1784\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1784\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1877-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1877\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/?attachment_id=1785\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1785\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1785\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_1876-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1876\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>oil and fuel strapped on the back of one pannier, a litre\u00a0of vodka on the other, trying to travel a bit lighter this time, so the huge Redverz tent is staying at home in the cupboard and my faithful Vango tent is coming along. A great hair cut (instead of last minute dental work) too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/?attachment_id=1782\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1782\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1782 \" src=\"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/FullSizeRender.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow I leave for my ninth motorcycle trip. I&#8217;m heading down to South(ish) west France, to the Dordogne, camping for the most part (apart from two nights at a friend&#8217;s house in La rochelle). Since my last trip to the Black Forrest, I have a new bike, new luggage, a new GPS (I bought it&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/dordogne-by-bmw-1200gs\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dordogne by BMW 1200gs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}