{"id":1847,"date":"2014-12-23T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.downhillonly.com\/wordpress\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2014-12-23T23:12:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T23:12:49","slug":"across-the-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1847","title":{"rendered":"Across the valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up very early this morning, we&#8217;re off to Murren, which is about 2 miles away as the crow flies. Unfortunately we&#8217;re not crows, so it takes a train, a bus and 3 cable cars to get there.<br \/>\n Murren clings to the side of the valley &#8211; it&#8217;s a mile above sea level. The only way up here is by cable car, so if the cable car stops running because of windy weather, you&#8217;re staying.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Murren.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Murren\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Murren.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The skiing here is above the tree line. It always feels a bit wild after the picturesque scenery in Wengen.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CB9CF778390E416DB2003185D51FA202JPG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"At Birg\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CB9CF778390E416DB2003185D51FA202JPG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The James Bond film &#8216;On Her Majesty&#8217;s Secret Service&#8217; was made here, and they don&#8217;t want this fact to be lost on you. There&#8217;s even cheesy Bond music in the cable car on the way up.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Val_a_Bond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Val a Bond\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Val_a_Bond.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a few ways to get out of Murren. You can ski, walk or fly, like this guy.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/74F7B885540244DCB64B0A93C3F66AE2JPG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fly!\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/74F7B885540244DCB64B0A93C3F66AE2JPG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"754\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up very early this morning, we&#8217;re off to Murren, which is about 2 miles away as the crow flies. Unfortunately we&#8217;re not crows, so it takes a train, a bus and 3 cable cars to get there. Murren clings to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1847\">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-1847","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\/1847","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=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}