{"id":1211,"date":"2015-10-25T16:42:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T16:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnbradshaw.net\/?page_id=1211"},"modified":"2024-11-12T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T14:10:51","slug":"china-2009-main","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.johnbradshaw.net\/?page_id=1211","title":{"rendered":"china 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aberystwyth to Beijing-2009
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This was truly a\u00a0 ride of a lifetime. 10,000 miles of mainly uncharted territory. Billed as a ‘scouting trip’ by Steve Hotson, the tour leader, as it was his first organised venture to the Far East. John Walsh and I rode swiftly (very swiftly at times!) and comfortably through an ordered western Europe with wonderful scenery in Germany, depressing industrial decay in Romania and Ukraine, warily(and unsuccessfully) past corrupt police in Russia, slowly with considerable difficulty on some very rough roads (when you could find one) in a mainly barren Kazakhstan,\u00a0 to the China border where we joined the main group of 8 other riders. Our Uiger guide\/minder led us through a mixture of everything you could wish for in a fascinating, severely ruled, environmentally irresponsible, overwhelmingly friendly China .<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Part 1 – From Aberystwyth through Europe and Russia<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Part 2 – Kazakhstan<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Part – 3 Across China to Beijing<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aberystwyth to Beijing-2009 This was truly a\u00a0 ride of a lifetime. 10,000 miles of mainly uncharted territory. Billed as a ‘scouting trip’ by Steve Hotson, the tour leader, as it was his first organised venture to the Far East. John Walsh and I rode swiftly (very swiftly at times!) and comfortably through an ordered western […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1211","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5sQ5l-jx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbradshaw.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbradshaw.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbradshaw.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbradshaw.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbradshaw.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbradshaw.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5912,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbradshaw.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1211\/revisions\/5912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbradshaw.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}