{"id":4437,"date":"2011-10-17T14:43:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2011-10-17T14:49:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:49:42","slug":"2011-10-15-mals-777-blog-day1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=4437","title":{"rendered":"2011-10-15 &#8211; 777 Blog &#8211; Day -1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/NHF21.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3780\" title=\"NHF2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/NHF21.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/NHF21.gif 153w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/NHF21-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/><\/a>At 05:30hrs, Darren and I got the kit loaded into the support vehicle, ready for the journey across to Bergen (Germany). Matt having just finished his surprise work leaving party was dispatched to us in dribbling smelly mess by courier, whilst Mum (Lyn Medcalf) supplies a constant and well received flow of tea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the first stop, the Channel Tunnel we managed to break the boot latch, after much ingenuity and bungee cords the boot was finally secured shut, stopping the bike rack coming loose somewhere in France, Belgium and Holland.\u00a0 Once on the Germany autobahn\u2019s the big German cars ensured the we felt insignificant whilst transiting at a mere 90mph.\u00a0 After 14 hours we finally arrived at Alex\u2019s house at 21:00hrs, a truly epic journey. Alex\u2019s offered the helpful comment of \u2018Did you drive here in reverse?\u2019\u00a0 A feast of turkey fajitas and beer \u00a0awaited supplied by Naomi and Mr Bo Jangles, then off to bed for welcome sleep.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malcolm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 05:30hrs, Darren and I got the kit loaded into the support vehicle, ready for the journey across to Bergen (Germany). Matt having just finished his surprise work leaving party was dispatched to us in dribbling smelly mess by courier, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=4437\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beaver-blog","category-cub-blog","category-scoutnews","category-scout-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4445,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions\/4445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}