{"id":76,"date":"2008-02-04T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/02\/04\/getting-all-tropical\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T09:00:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T09:00:46","slug":"getting-all-tropical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/02\/04\/getting-all-tropical\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting all tropical.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=lifeblogimage><img src=\"\/WorldTour07\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0013309_m.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Tropical cyclone that is though! With concern for the  waterproof-ness of the van through the night, we awoke to a stream, or rather white water rapids, beneath the van (good job we&#8217;re not in a tent!) Seeking refuge in a multi-storey car park, and the dry cool air of a shopping centre, we rode the storm out before driving on to Surfers Paradise.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure it was once a surfer&#8217;s paradise, but it&#8217;s now more of a Blackpool on steroids, or a sleepy Vegas with fewer casinos. It doesn&#8217;t do badly though, $2.2bn turnover, 200 high rises, and the tallest residential building in the world. All this learnt from our trip on the amphibious duck bus, which takes a little paddle up the river as part of the tour. They also mentioned that Schoolies week (30,000 17 year olds descend on the place to cause havoc) brings in $60mn, and that&#8217;s why they put up with it, doesn&#8217;t sound worth it to me!<br \/>\nI&#8217;m off to guard my wallet, there&#8217;s too many businesses keen to relieve you of cash around here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical cyclone that is though! With concern for the waterproof-ness of the van through the night, we awoke to a stream, or rather white water rapids, beneath the van (good job we&#8217;re not in a tent!) Seeking refuge in a multi-storey car park, and the dry cool air of a shopping centre, we rode the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/02\/04\/getting-all-tropical\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting all tropical..&#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\/76"}],"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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}