{"id":3563,"date":"2012-04-19T22:19:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T21:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2012-04-19T22:19:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T21:19:11","slug":"french-road-trip-french-3-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3563","title":{"rendered":"French Road Trip \u2013 French 3 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have an aversion to Scottish JKs (big UK Easter Orienteering Festival), when I lived down south it was too far, the weather is often iffy at Easter and there always seems to be a nice alternative somewhere warmer. This year we were trying to go to Spain, but could just not get any info on the event. In the end Cath discovered a French \u20183 Jours de Paques\u2019, just north of Bordeaux on the l&#8217;\u00eele d&#8217;Ol\u00e9ron.. Sand dune forests, French food, what more could we ask.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3jours2012.club-co17.com\/index.html\">http:\/\/3jours2012.club-co17.com\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2012\/04\/09042012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3564\" title=\"09042012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2012\/04\/09042012-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2012\/04\/09042012-300x281.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2012\/04\/09042012-150x140.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2012\/04\/09042012-400x375.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2012\/04\/09042012.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Im not sure it was a great decision to go for just the weekend and drive! meaning it turned into a bit of a major road trip (1600 mile weekend) but overall we had a great time and I believe the orienteering was OK too (cath\u2019s map shown) The area was actually quite runnable and not as green as the map suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The club took 3 cars out and stayed in a posh resort caravan park with a fantastic spa pool we all lazed in when not visiting light houses, orienteering or eat ice creams and crepes. The 3 juniors who came out did us proud and it was a struggle to get the 8 trophy\u2019s into the car for the return journey.<\/p>\n<p>I had a word with my physio before I went (he was really not happy about the drive) and said that I could take a bike a go for a few poodles for my mental health rather than just sitting there moaning. In the end I had 3, 45 minute, lane and forest road rides on the Whyte E5 and I am starting to like it. I still wonder whether it is slightly too big for me and that I might need a small but overall its good, particularly pedalling over the bumpy stuff. The rest of the time I took photos and enjoyed the slightly windy sunshine thinking of friends getting cold and wet in Scotland!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have an aversion to Scottish JKs (big UK Easter Orienteering Festival), when I lived down south it was too far, the weather is often iffy at Easter and there always seems to be a nice alternative somewhere warmer. This year we were trying to go to Spain, but could just not get any info &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3563\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;French Road Trip \u2013 French 3 Days&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}