{"id":253,"date":"2008-08-03T10:07:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T09:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/08\/03\/not-so-laos-y\/"},"modified":"2008-08-03T10:07:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T09:07:05","slug":"not-so-laos-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/08\/03\/not-so-laos-y\/","title":{"rendered":"Not so Laos-y"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=lifeblogimage><img src=\"\/WorldTour07\/wp-content\/uploads\/cazbuddhalpq.JPG\"><\/div>\n<p>Despite having an international airport, and being one of Laos&#8217; (Laoses? Laos&#8217;s?) premier tourist destinations, Luang Prabang is quite a small place. With that in mind we again found ourselves on a couple of classy sit up and beg bikes to tour the temples. As you might expect, the temples were pretty much the same as others we&#8217;d seen, but one did have days of the week Buddhas (that&#8217;s Caroline next to Friday&#8230;)<br \/>\nWondering how I was going to explain someone pinching one of the bike locks we&#8217;d rented, we explored the limits of the city, quickly realising the roads either went nowhere or were too busy to ride on, unless you&#8217;ve got a death wish. I also found out that cheap plastic ponchos actually get you wetter on the inside when it rains.<br \/>\nWith all that exersion, it was time for a massage and I even put my doubts to one side and joined Caroline (well, it was cheap, and you do have to try new things&#8230;). The experience was quite relaxing, with only the occasional bit of pain and only slightly tickly when my feet were done. A few hours later my neck and calf muscles did start to hurt, which I can only put down to the massage!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having an international airport, and being one of Laos&#8217; (Laoses? Laos&#8217;s?) premier tourist destinations, Luang Prabang is quite a small place. With that in mind we again found ourselves on a couple of classy sit up and beg bikes to tour the temples. As you might expect, the temples were pretty much the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/08\/03\/not-so-laos-y\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not so Laos-y&#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\/253"}],"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=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}