{"id":5230,"date":"2023-07-21T16:14:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T15:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/?p=5230"},"modified":"2023-07-21T16:15:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T15:15:27","slug":"thoughts-from-the-stena-cabin-on-17th-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/thoughts-from-the-stena-cabin-on-17th-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from the Stena cabin on 17th June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">17<sup>th<\/sup> June: This is the morning of the 17th of June in my cabin, so, last night, I slept like a log, better than I normally do at home. The whistling Dutchman comes on the cabin speakers at half past five, which may be half past six local time but is still half past five as far as my body is concerned. The coffee and croissant was better than I remember from years gone by; the coffee was hotter and stronger. And the croissant was slightly bigger. Even the jam was slightly thicker than I remember on a previous journey. So, one extra layer today but it could be hot. It could be the same as England was here in the Netherlands. One of the other guys on a bike told me he was going to take a route around the north coast of the country. So I&#8217;ve decided to do that because you can&#8217;t \u2013 the ferry company say don&#8217;t get to the ferry terminal before two o&#8217;clock, so we dock at eight this morning. It should be a leisurely no hurry kind of ride. But I always seem to hurry. I don&#8217;t know why. So maybe this time I\u2019ll just try and take it easy &#8211; whatever that means. It&#8217;s a pretty early start on this trip. I know that, but once you&#8217;re up and going then it should be fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2oLPCdN\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53015759374_ebdda98400_z.jpg\" alt=\"untitled-56.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The usual inside cabin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2oLRgFA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53016080508_2e817671d9_z.jpg\" alt=\"untitled-55.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">All that was left of him<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17th June: This is the morning of the 17th of June in my cabin, so, last night, I slept like a log, better than I normally do at home. The whistling Dutchman comes on the cabin speakers at half past five, which may be half past six local time but is still half past five&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/thoughts-from-the-stena-cabin-on-17th-june\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thoughts from the Stena cabin on 17th June<\/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":[3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5230","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\/5230","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=5230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5232,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions\/5232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}