{"id":744,"date":"2007-08-10T09:26:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T09:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journeytorussia.co.uk\/2007\/08\/10\/waiting-russian-bears\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T09:25:10","slug":"waiting-russian-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/waiting-russian-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/journeytorussia\/548675439\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1129\/548675439_33d89da88e_m.jpg?w=1290\" title=\"Bike in Bits in Patrick's Garage\" align=\"right\" style=\"padding-left:5px\"><\/a>Well as you all know the Russian Bear will have to wait. I have a bike to rebuild once my body is rebuilt (thankfully unlike bikes there&#8217;ll never be bits left over when it&#8217;s fully back together) and to be honest I&#8217;m more or less there. With the trip on hold for a bit Matt and Stace are off on their travels leaving me with a garage full of bike bits&#8230;Thanks guys! <\/p>\n<p>Stace is off to Cornwall and France for a bit of R&#038;R he&#8217;s off soon and no doubt will have some breathtaking pictures upon his return. Having learnt much from the prep for this trip he found he didn&#8217;t have to worry about the Cornish leg and the Foreign Office assured him that Cornwall was indeed part of the UK and the terror threat was low(ish). <\/p>\n<p>Matt seems to have drawn the short straw again though. As with Russia he seems to have engaged mouth before brain and a throw away remark now seems to be sending him somewhere warm and sandy. I suspect when he mentioned he wanted to go to Morocco to Mrs Cashmore and later to Stace and I he at least hoped for some worry over his plan&#8230;Not so! <\/p>\n<p>Indeed &#8216;Ooooo great idea&#8217; was one of Catherine&#8217;s comments and &#8216;How soon can you leave&#8217; was mine&#8230; Joking aside this is a big trip for the Big Boyo. He&#8217;s taking on a monster run down through France and Spain and then dipping his toe in the sands of Africa (who needs to be a journo to write this stuff&#8230;.) is a big undertaking &#8211; especially for the solo rider. <\/p>\n<p>However it&#8217;s also a fantastic oppurtunity to test some of the bits we&#8217;re planning for Journey To Russia. So hats off to Matt and like us you can follow progress at <a href=\"http:\/\/journeytomorocco.com\">journeytomorocco.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well as you all know the Russian Bear will have to wait. I have a bike to rebuild once my body is rebuilt (thankfully unlike bikes there&#8217;ll never be bits left over when it&#8217;s fully back together) and to be honest I&#8217;m more or less there. With the trip on hold for a bit Matt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_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":[168,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}