{"id":7343,"date":"2010-03-23T16:49:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T06:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/?p=7343"},"modified":"2010-03-23T16:49:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T06:49:17","slug":"tour-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2010\/03\/23\/tour-down-under\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in January Meg & I spent a few days in Adelaide to catch up with her extended family. We had a really nice time, meeting in my case, or catching up with, all her relies on her Dad’s side. There was lots of nice food, a few beers, backyard cricket and board games.<\/p>\n

In between all the get-togethers we managed to sneak off and watch some of the Tour Down Under<\/a> – which for bike weenies like us was a real treat.<\/p>\n

It was a bit hot some days, standing beside the road waiting for the race, and driving around trying to catch the peloton was a bit stressful at times – but it was still really good fun, more than I thought it would be in fact. We will have to see a stage of the Tour de France one day.<\/p>\n

I took a few photos, mainly just shot from chest level without looking through the view finder as the riders went past – hence a few cut off heads and so on. Still I got good pics of Mick Rogers, Lance Armstrong, Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Greipel (who won), big Jens Voigt, Robbie McKewen, Cadel Evans (world champion – rainbow jersey), and Stuey O’Grady amoungst others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in January Meg & I spent a few days in Adelaide to catch up with her extended family. We had a really nice time, meeting in my case, or catching up with, all her relies on her Dad’s side. There was lots of nice food, a few beers, backyard cricket and board games. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343"}],"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=7343"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7349,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions\/7349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}