{"id":7973,"date":"2020-04-14T12:41:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T12:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2020-04-16T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T13:50:25","slug":"hope-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7973","title":{"rendered":"Hope springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The forecast wasn&#8217;t good for today, and sure enough we had a shower of rain overnight. It didn&#8217;t take long for the sun to return though, and by coffee time this was the view from Chalet Iltis.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143101-scaled.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7970\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143101-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143101-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143101-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143101-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143101-1536x1011.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143101-2048x1348.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the end of the bank holiday, and the official end of the ski season. Building work can start now. This crane is being driven by remote control to its destination.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143130-scaled.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7971\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143130-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143130-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143130-1024x647.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143130-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143130-1536x971.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143130-2048x1294.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And in the hope of salvaging something of the summer season, the mini-golf is being prepared.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143201-1-scaled.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7975\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143201-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143201-1-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143201-1-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143201-1-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143201-1-1536x984.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200414_143201-1-2048x1313.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later on Val joined her German class via Skype, while I fiddled with the plumbing in the cellar, trying (and succeeding) to get all the outside taps working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forecast wasn&#8217;t good for today, and sure enough we had a shower of rain overnight. It didn&#8217;t take long for the sun to return though, and by coffee time this was the view from Chalet Iltis. It&#8217;s the end &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7973\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7973","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\/7973","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=7973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}