{"id":82,"date":"2013-11-03T09:12:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T09:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/?p=82"},"modified":"2013-11-03T09:12:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T09:12:47","slug":"lifes-a-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s a beach&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After inspecting the works and enjoying a fine lunch, we were joined by Maggy and took a walk to the beach. On the way we passed a &#8220;family of three&#8221; baobab tree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/051.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-83\" alt=\"05\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/051-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/051-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/051-190x126.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/051.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walking the deserted beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/061.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-84\" alt=\"06\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/061-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/061-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/061-190x126.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/061.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First stop, 500m along the beach, is North Coast Beach Hotel, with its beach bar. Mango and passion juice all round.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/071.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-85\" alt=\"07\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/071-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/071-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/071-190x126.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/071.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meld and I swam, the water has as hot as a bath, and from the water we saw two horses being ridden along the water&#8217;s edge. Mandatory photo for Bridget!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/081.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-86\" alt=\"08\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/081-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/081-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/081-190x126.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/081.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Relaxing after the swim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-87\" alt=\"09\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/091-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/091-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/091-190x126.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/091.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then we strolled back, passing the fragrant frangipan trees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-88\" alt=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/101-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/101-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/101-190x126.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/101.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were back in good time for All Saints&#8217; Day mass, where Joe told his parishioners that the house had to be finished before we go home so that we can spend a night under it roof.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After inspecting the works and enjoying a fine lunch, we were joined by Maggy and took a walk to the beach. On the way we passed a &#8220;family of three&#8221; baobab tree. Walking the deserted beach. First stop, 500m along the beach, is North Coast Beach Hotel, with its beach bar. Mango and passion juice&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/?p=82\">Continue Reading Life&#8217;s a beach&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kikambala","radius"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43dbc-1k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.asimons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}