{"id":10346,"date":"2022-01-15T17:56:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T17:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10346"},"modified":"2022-01-15T17:56:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T17:56:31","slug":"the-big-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10346","title":{"rendered":"The big day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s Lauberhorn Saturday, which is Switzerland&#8217;s equivalent of the FA Cup final in England. Wengen is packed, but once the spectators begin to make their way out to the course we pop up to the village. Today\u2019s air show begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2049\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2667-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2667-2.jpg 2049w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2667-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2667-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2667-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2667-2-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2667-2-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2049px) 100vw, 2049px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We enjoyed watching the show, which always ends with 2 planes making a heart over the valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1706\" height=\"1277\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2675.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2675.jpg 1706w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2675-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2675-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2675-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2675-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_2675-401x300.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1706px) 100vw, 1706px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The big race was won by an Austrian, which never goes down well here. We were happy to watch it on TV &#8211; you don\u2019t actually see much out on the course &#8211; just a colourful figure flashing past once every couple of minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the racers got down safely, and the pilot of the rescue helicopter was not required. He did get this lovely picture though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1635\" height=\"1147\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_3157.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_3157.jpg 1635w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_3157-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_3157-1024x718.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_3157-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_3157-1536x1078.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_3157-428x300.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1635px) 100vw, 1635px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Slalom tomorrow, featuring Great Britain&#8217;s Dave Ryding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Lauberhorn Saturday, which is Switzerland&#8217;s equivalent of the FA Cup final in England. Wengen is packed, but once the spectators begin to make their way out to the course we pop up to the village. Today\u2019s air show begins. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10346\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelsandtribulations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}