{"id":2473,"date":"2019-07-11T17:17:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T17:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2019-07-11T17:17:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T17:17:12","slug":"getting-ready-to-ride-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/getting-ready-to-ride-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready to ride in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday I sail on Brittany Ferries from Portsmouth to Bilbao for a couple of weeks riding in northern Spain. I’m leaving the tent at home for a change and have booked four rural hotels, all interesting, I hope, in different ways. Not camping means I can leave all this lot in the cupboard:<\/p>\n

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In fact this is a picture from Google earth of my first hotel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hotel Real Monasterio de San Zoilo<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was feeling a little sad at missing out on the camping experience but this photograph looks like an intriguing place. Does its name mean that it is a real monastery, not one of those fake monasteries with fake monks who turn out to be actors?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you are immersed in working and living – as is too easy, these trips can come up out of the blue almost in a strangely unwelcome way – paradoxically – as an interruption to the numb mindlessness of routine. But getting out maps and packing the panniers does start to dissolve that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unusually, the sailing down to Bilbao is two nights, a chance hopefully to disengage and get into a new headspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday I sail on Brittany Ferries from Portsmouth to Bilbao for a couple of weeks riding in northern Spain. I’m leaving the tent at home for a change and have booked four rural hotels, all interesting, I hope, in different ways. Not camping means I can leave all this lot in the cupboard: In…Read more Getting ready to ride in Spain<\/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":[1],"tags":[69,85,109,117,132],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ferry","tag-holiday","tag-motorcycling","tag-northern-spain","tag-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","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=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}