{"id":23,"date":"2012-02-18T17:58:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T17:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigmcateer.co.uk\/islay\/?p=23"},"modified":"2012-03-28T12:25:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T12:25:30","slug":"the-journey-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigmcateer.co.uk\/islay\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"The journey begins."},"content":{"rendered":"<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Living in Kent in South East England I&#8217;ve got the choice of either flying to Glasgow and then catching the flight to Islay from there. \u00a0 It&#8217;s probably quicker but since I fly most of the time for work it&#8217;s nice to travel by alternative means &#8211; so I&#8217;m taking the Landrover. \u00a0 It should be a trip of about 1200 Miles door to Islay and back to my door.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">However &#8211; \u00a0Al has managed to book a flight into Edinburgh from Germany so I&#8217;m going to take a 100 mile detour there to pick her up and then we&#8217;ll both head over to the west coast where we&#8217;ll spend the night before getting the ferry first thing in the morning.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We&#8217;ll then have a day on Islay ourselves (on the Thursday) before we see the arrival by plane of Caroline (my wife) who will be flying from Gatwick to Glasgow and meeting up at the airport with Wolfgang (her husband) and Ralf (their friend) who will be flying in from Frankfurt. \u00a0The three of them will then board the plane on the short journey to Islay. \u00a0 Where, if they&#8217;re nice to us, myself and Al will pick them up and take them to our accommodation for the night.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Arriving the day after that will be Heather and Garson who will be driving from Aberdeen. \u00a0 \u00a0If all goes well on the Saturday we&#8217;ll all be moving to our permanent accommodation for the week for the\u00a0F\u00e8is \u00ccle to commence proper. \u00a0<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living in Kent in South East England I&#8217;ve got the choice of either flying to Glasgow and then catching the flight to Islay from there. \u00a0 It&#8217;s probably quicker but since I fly most of the time for work it&#8217;s nice to travel by alternative means &#8211; so I&#8217;m taking the Landrover. \u00a0 It should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islay","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigmcateer.co.uk\/islay\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigmcateer.co.uk\/islay\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigmcateer.co.uk\/islay\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigmcateer.co.uk\/islay\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigmcateer.co.uk\/islay\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/craigmcateer.co.uk\/islay\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/craigmcateer.co.uk\/islay\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigmcateer.co.uk\/islay\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigmcateer.co.uk\/islay\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigmcateer.co.uk\/islay\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}