{"id":4870,"date":"2022-03-27T21:43:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T20:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/?p=4870"},"modified":"2022-03-28T09:46:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T08:46:24","slug":"a-crazy-ride-back-to-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/a-crazy-ride-back-to-cambridge\/","title":{"rendered":"A crazy ride back to Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today was not a good day to be trying to travel north from London. The M11 was closed – but I knew that in advance and planned a sneaky route on the slightly nicer A10 but no one warned me that the A10 was closed at the M25 junction so many slow miles across country followed to that old-time route up the A1M to Cambridge. My city council garage is being demolished. Storm Eustace damaged the block – where I used to keep my Beamer on the top floor before they relocated me (luckily) to the ground floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poorly built – just one brick thick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So now the whole building is being pulled down. It wouldn’t surprise anyone if the council sell this premium land to a developer to squeeze some flats onto it. Last week with the help of my son and Cambridge Car and Van Rental on Newmarket Road we emptied the artwork and furniture and relocated to Davy Road in a more residential part of the city. Today was my chance to take the bike back up there and sort out a few things like a ground anchor and some coat hooks – but everything about the garage is hard concrete so these things are either impossible with my battery operated tools or take hours. My drill got so hot I burnt myself on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It all looked so neat to start with<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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New home for a while<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The clocks moved to British Summer Time today. When I left the garage for the short walk over the bridge to the station, the evening sun was shining, the playground opposite was full of families and small kids and a couple of guys were walking past with some loud soul music playing – a nice moment or two. Hardly anyone was speaking English. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My indirect route – about 85 miles and three hours riding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was not a good day to be trying to travel north from London. The M11 was closed – but I knew that in advance and planned a sneaky route on the slightly nicer A10 but no one warned me that the A10 was closed at the M25 junction so many slow miles across country…Read more A crazy ride back to Cambridge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4871,"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":[3,182],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-4870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biking","category-travel-uk","tag-cambridge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/39cb47d1-addc-49ff-b1f3-451040261026.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870","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=4870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4877,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions\/4877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}