{"id":873,"date":"2011-08-04T08:29:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T15:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obliquepanic.net\/?p=873"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:56:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T18:56:57","slug":"the-story-is-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/travel-uk\/the-story-is-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"The story is rain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trusty Norwegian weather site predicted rain from 3 am which would stop at 10 am. It was right on both counts and I left Ayr in the dry. But it didn&#8217;t predict it would start raining again and rain on and off all day necessitating a hasty climb into the rain suit in a carpark just off the ferry at Dunoon. <\/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\/aby4XJ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/6205\/6026632780_0d6b5da2b2_z.jpg\" alt=\"Rain on the ferry to who knows where\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/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\/aby5bb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/6144\/6026633502_6839e98877_z.jpg\" alt=\"Rain on the ferry to who knows where\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then I&#8217;ve been wet all day and my spirits flagged seriously rising when I reached the stunning and unusual landscape of Glen Coe. It&#8217;s on page 2 of my two page map of Scotland so I have some progress. Driving past a big commercial campsite in Glencoe village because I knew this cool campsite was 4 miles down the road was also very satisfying (for a while at least). <\/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\/aby5qN\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/6070\/6026634350_8a87c087f3_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5362\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Its not actually raining<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This place is stunning and I still haven&#8217;t got my head round the amazing scenery here of the loch the mountains and the ever moving clouds. However, clouds mean rain and I jumped insure my just fabricated tent in time to shelter from another shower and write this. I feel I don&#8217;t want to linger on this rainy holiday. I remember that the washroom was crowded and the floor was wet and muddy. <\/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\/aby5G1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/6068\/6026635232_5135580513_z.jpg\" alt=\"Glencoe cloud=rain\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">what?<\/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\/abvek6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/6205\/6026078959_dbfeb15a27_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5364\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Don&#8217;t even ask for a caption<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will reach my target of Durness at the top of Scotland but get there tomorrow or the day later. I find the rain very tedious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-pale-pink-background-color has-background\"><tbody><tr><td>Mileage 145.4<\/td><td>Average speed 39.6<\/td><td>Max speed 76.3<\/td><td>Riding time 3.75<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trusty Norwegian weather site predicted rain from 3 am which would stop at 10 am. It was right on both counts and I left Ayr in the dry. But it didn&#8217;t predict it would start raining again and rain on and off all day necessitating a hasty climb into the rain suit in a&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/travel-uk\/the-story-is-rain\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The story is rain<\/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":[182],"tags":[37,55,126],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-uk","tag-biking","tag-camping-travel","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5080,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/5080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}