{"id":61,"date":"2008-01-19T07:39:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T07:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/01\/19\/moobar\/"},"modified":"2008-01-19T07:39:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T07:39:56","slug":"moobar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/01\/19\/moobar\/","title":{"rendered":"Moobar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=lifeblogimage><img src=\"\/WorldTour07\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0012383_m.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s the little rest stops that make the journey, and with signs proclaiming &#8220;udderly fantastic coffee&#8221; at the Moo Moo Cafe, there just isn&#8217;t a reason to not stop. So we emptied our bladders (udders?), had a coffee and sat next to cows wandering through banana plantations, which I think is actually an experiment to make banana milkshake.<br \/>\nMoobar is in the Tweed Valley, and whilst there are some similarities to the original &#8211; green hills, trees, river &#8211; that&#8217;s as far as it goes, as I don&#8217;t remember seeing banana trees near Peebles! The centre point of the valley is Mount Warning, named along with Point Danger by Captain Cook when he ran aground,  I think I would have named them Point Stupidrocks and Mount Dammit.<br \/>\nMount Warning is a huge volcanic plug, and can be climbed by walking 9km through rainforest (yes, with leeches, I&#8217;m a sucker for punishment), with a scramble to the top. Unfortunately\/fortunately we arrived a little too late to do it today, but there&#8217;s always tomorrow!<br \/>\nFinally, the tropical Sesame Street that is our trip was brought to you today by the bite of a huge ant to Simon, and the sighting of a tiny (think 5p coin) green frog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the little rest stops that make the journey, and with signs proclaiming &#8220;udderly fantastic coffee&#8221; at the Moo Moo Cafe, there just isn&#8217;t a reason to not stop. So we emptied our bladders (udders?), had a coffee and sat next to cows wandering through banana plantations, which I think is actually an experiment to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/01\/19\/moobar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moobar!&#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\/61"}],"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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}