{"id":3208,"date":"2016-09-12T14:11:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T14:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2016-09-12T14:16:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T14:16:46","slug":"a-gamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3208","title":{"rendered":"A gamble\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather looked distinctly changeable this morning, but we thought we might get lucky if we avoided the coastline. We were the only passengers on the ferry to East Portlemouth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-image-1800307289jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-image-1800307289jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3201 alignnone size-full\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1126\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deserted beach at Mill Bay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-image-2058266416jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-image-2058266416jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3202 alignnone size-full\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1126\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lovely old cottages at West Prawle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-image-1179708360jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-image-1179708360jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3203 alignnone size-full\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1126\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our walk takes us across a lot of farmland as we head north away from the coast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-image-1649877971jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-image-1649877971jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3210 alignnone size-full\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quite steep in places!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-image-1289687025jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-image-1289687025jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3205 alignnone size-full\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1126\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our route. About 7 miles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-1473689317281.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-1473689317281.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3206 alignnone size-full\" width=\"1849\" height=\"968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-1473689317281.png 1849w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-1473689317281-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-1473689317281-1024x536.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1849px) 100vw, 1849px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone was wrong about the weather. We had the ferry to ourselves again on the way back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-image-1113717285jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wpid-wp-image-1113717285jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3207 alignnone size-full\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather looked distinctly changeable this morning, but we thought we might get lucky if we avoided the coastline. We were the only passengers on the ferry to East Portlemouth.&nbsp; Deserted beach at Mill Bay.&nbsp; Lovely old cottages at West &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3208\">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-3208","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\/3208","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=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}