{"id":5174,"date":"2004-08-25T09:11:32","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T08:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2004-08-25T09:11:32","modified_gmt":"2004-08-25T08:11:32","slug":"travelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/08\/25\/travelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off to the Netherlands later today, and will be back on Friday evening. So expect some quiet in the meantime, although, if you&#8217;re lucky, you might get one of those rambling airport-based posts. I should also be able to connect from my hotel, so there is the prospect of some brief entries.<br \/>\nThe reason for my trip this time is to attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plantarium.nl\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Plantarium\">Plantarium<\/a> trade event in Boskoop. I have three or four meetings lined up, all but one of which I am looking forward to (the one I am not looking forward to involves sorting out some political issues, something that I never enjoy doing), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plantsforeurope.com\/portfolio\/salvianemorosapinkbeauty.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Salvia nemorosa Pink Beauty\">one of my plants<\/a> has been entered in the Best New Plant Competition, so fingers crossed for that.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve got a packed weekend in store too. On Saturday morning, we plan to view three properties. In the afternoon, Hels has a medical appointment that she is not looking forward to. On Sunday we shall be with the in-laws-to-be. Monday will involve some time in the office and picking Mum up for Tuesday&#8217;s booze-cruise to Calais to get the wines for the wedding reception. Wednesday and Thursday features a trip to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clamerinforma.it\/Four_Oaks\/IndexEN.asp\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Four Oaks\">trade show<\/a> in Cheshire, Friday an overdue haircut, Saturday packing for a week-long trip to Germany and Sunday flying to Hamburg.<br \/>\nActually, it may be quiet here for some time to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off to the Netherlands later today, and will be back on Friday evening. So expect some quiet in the meantime, although, if you&#8217;re lucky, you might get one of those rambling airport-based posts. I should also be able to connect from my hotel, so there is the prospect of some brief entries. The reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-married-life","category-travel","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}