{"id":231,"date":"2005-07-17T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-17T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/17\/operation-toal-phase-one\/"},"modified":"2005-07-17T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-17T14:01:00","slug":"operation-toal-phase-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/17\/operation-toal-phase-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation TOAL: Phase One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Trip Of A Lifetime: Phase One goes something like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow morning <lj user=djkoa>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lauperr.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">lauperr<\/a> and I get up at 1am to drive to Stanstead Airport where we catch the 6:30 flight to Venice (for \u00a345!). We then spend two days there with <a href=\"http:\/\/lauperr.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">lauperr<\/a> in the sun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lauperr.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">lauperr<\/a> then goes home on the plane and we wave her off. The following day <a href=\"http:\/\/djkoa.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">djkoa<\/a> and I catch a 24 hour ferry to Patras in Greece, sleeping on the Deck. Once we get to Patras we have 2-3 weeks to see Greece, Italy, France, Belgium, Slovenia, Netherlands and Luxembourg (and possibly Istambul) and find our way back to England on the trains! (I say 2-3 weeks because the interrail ticket lasts for 22 days but <a href=\"http:\/\/djkoa.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">djkoa<\/a> has to come back a few days early for some exam retakes!).<\/p>\n<p>We will be sleeping on overnight trains, in a tent (preferably on a camp site but the side of the road works too) and in youth hostels, living on an extremely small budget and living out of an 85 litre backpack.<\/p>\n<p>I will probably make Amsterdam the last stop where I might meet up with Adam (my boss) who seems to know the place like the back of his hand.<\/p>\n<p>For the next three weeks this blog becomes a travel blog and I hope to update about every three to four days (Internet Access Permitting).<\/p>\n<p>Wish us luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Trip Of A Lifetime: Phase One goes something like this&#8230; Tomorrow morning , lauperr and I get up at 1am to drive to Stanstead Airport where we catch the 6:30 flight to Venice (for \u00a345!). We then spend two days there with lauperr in the sun. lauperr then goes home on the plane and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/17\/operation-toal-phase-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Operation TOAL: Phase One<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}