{"id":2466,"date":"2019-05-29T21:29:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T21:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2019-05-29T21:29:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T21:29:57","slug":"ride-to-thorpeness-aldeburgh-and-orford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/ride-to-thorpeness-aldeburgh-and-orford\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride to Thorpeness, Aldeburgh and Orford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A long day and some promise of sunshine led me to take the bike from Cambridge out to the Suffolk coast to three places that I had visited before but separately, in order of arrival, Thorpeness, Aldeburgh and Orford. Apart from a deluge of rain early on, the day ended with sunshine to greet my arrival. Thorpeness and Aldeburgh are lovely English villages and full of tourists with a long stoney beach and a short straight beach road between them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot-2019-05-29-at-22.11.38.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2467\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Orford ness has a strange topology and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/orford-ness-national-nature-reserve\/lists\/history-of-orford-ness\">stranger past.<\/a> I&#8217;ve never seen the derelict buildings of the old atomic weapons testing site and by the time I usually arrive there (I see that the last time I visited was nearly 2 years ago), it is cold and I&#8217;m ready to return. I&#8217;ve also never worked out how you get across the spit. The seafront where I parked up has a small tea room, rather characterless I thought but in a lovely location. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I edited the four hours of sometimes cold riding to a 4 minute video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qrIcHEZmY4w\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n[sgpx gpx=&#8221;\/wp-content\/uploads\/gpx\/thorpeness-and-orford.gpx&#8221;]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long day and some promise of sunshine led me to take the bike from Cambridge out to the Suffolk coast to three places that I had visited before but separately, in order of arrival, Thorpeness, Aldeburgh and Orford. Apart from a deluge of rain early on, the day ended with sunshine to greet my&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/ride-to-thorpeness-aldeburgh-and-orford\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ride to Thorpeness, Aldeburgh and Orford<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[102,148],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-motorcycle","tag-travel-suffolk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","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=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}