{"id":3209,"date":"2020-01-23T23:34:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T23:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2020-01-24T09:44:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T09:44:01","slug":"eurotrip-8-2020-day-11-to-12-calm-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=3209","title":{"rendered":"Eurotrip 8, 2020 \u2013 Day 11 to 12, Calm returns\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Storm Gloria has finally passed and is reputed to have been one of the strongest storms to hit the Eastern portion of Spain since 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current death count stands at 11. In many respects we have escaped the storm lightly. Just lots and lots of rain and wind. Further North, monumental amounts of snow have closed roads and caused havoc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today (Wednesday) and things are much quieter. A chance to patch up the electrics on the bike and then a ride to Oropesa del Mar. The holiday town which resembles a ghost town. It’s around a ten mile round trip along the Via Verde and the electrics aren’t really necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View to Benicassim from the Via Verde<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the afternoon we met up with Paul and Andrea in Benicassim and spent the late afternoon and evening in a series of bars, eating at Chiquitas in the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today Moe joined me on the bike ride to Oropesa del Mar again and whilst the winds have dropped, the sea is still angry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Around the headland at Oropesa del Mar, Spain 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the afternoon, we cooked a BBQ. This bottle of Rioja was left in the freezer a little longer than was necessary to achieve chilled status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Rioja is super-chilled<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A testament to our new hybrid Domestic cooler \/ freezer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Storm Gloria has finally passed and is reputed to have been one of the strongest storms to hit the Eastern portion of Spain since 1982. The current death count stands at 11. In many respects we have escaped the storm lightly. Just lots and lots of rain and wind. Further North, monumental amounts of snow … Continue reading Eurotrip 8, 2020 \u2013 Day 11 to 12, Calm returns\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-europe-spain","category-2020-europe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}