Took it pretty easy on Saturday, needed to catch up on some sleep after the last few weeks. Got some breaky at a cool place called “The Metro”, which has a map of the London Underground on the wall. I amused myself for quite a while reading all the names, Bottomleigh, Chudsworth, Pudding Mill Lane .. OK I made those up, but the real names are funny too.<\/p>\n
I found a cool internet cafe, hence the blogging, with awesome hot chocolate. After years of Tilley’s made-to-order hot chocolate I’m pretty picky. But this was pretty damn good, and further reinforced my opinion that hot chocolate must<\/strong> come with marshmallows, and preferably in<\/strong> the chocolate.<\/p>\n Today (Sunday) started with rain, which was a bit of a downer, I’d been keen to ride out to the castle on the peninsula. Instead I took my time, waited for the rain to stop, and eventually it did. So I raced down to the bike shop, and after very little haggling had myself a pretty decent mountain bike, but with slick tires for around town, all for $100\/week.<\/p>\n By mid afternoon the sun was out, so I just started riding north for the hell of it. After a while I saw signs to “Signal Hill” which sounded promising. 90 minutes of serious hill later, I found myself at a pretty cracking look out. Check out the photos if you care.<\/p>\n Needless to say the ride down was pretty awesome. About 10 minutes of serious speed, if I get the time I might ride up again just for the descent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Took it pretty easy on Saturday, needed to catch up on some sleep after the last few weeks. Got some breaky at a cool place called “The Metro”, which has a map of the London Underground on the wall. I amused myself for quite a while reading all the names, Bottomleigh, Chudsworth, Pudding Mill Lane […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[39,37,22,13,21,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7691,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions\/7691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}