{"id":107,"date":"2008-03-06T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T13:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/03\/06\/the-long-hot-drive-to-adelaide\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T13:13:08","slug":"the-long-hot-drive-to-adelaide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/03\/06\/the-long-hot-drive-to-adelaide\/","title":{"rendered":"The long hot drive to Adelaide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=lifeblogimage><img src=\"\/WorldTour07\/wp-content\/uploads\/larrylobster.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>With the three of us tootling along in the non-airconditioned van, with one window stuck closed, and largely ineffective fans blowing, the drive up to Adelaide could be understated as hot and sticky.<br \/>\nBeyond a doubt the highlight of the day was finding Larry the Lobster, a &#8220;big thing&#8221; as per the banana and pineapple from earlier in our trip. Larry is special though &#8211; he was originally designed measured in feet but accidentally made in metres, so he&#8217;s three times bigger than expected (the photo has Caroline and Dad standing next to him, but they&#8217;re just dots!), and a testament as to what can be acheived with fibreglass!<br \/>\nThe day finished with a dip in a shady cold swimming pool, absolute bliss after the day in the van. We also managed to squeeze in an Aussie barbeque for Dad&#8217;s last dinner with us, well it just wouldn&#8217;t be a trip to Australia without one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the three of us tootling along in the non-airconditioned van, with one window stuck closed, and largely ineffective fans blowing, the drive up to Adelaide could be understated as hot and sticky. Beyond a doubt the highlight of the day was finding Larry the Lobster, a &#8220;big thing&#8221; as per the banana and pineapple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/03\/06\/the-long-hot-drive-to-adelaide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The long hot drive to Adelaide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}