{"id":18,"date":"2015-04-15T19:13:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiwihoods.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2015-04-15T19:28:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:28:18","slug":"our-first-days-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kiwihoods.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Our first days in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well we made it to England despite a few setbacks, like delayed planes, trains and automobiles.\u00a0 We stayed our first two nights in Kings Cross, where it looks like the area is being made into a trendy upbeat place.\u00a0 It certainly was buzzing while we were there.<\/p>\n<p>We met up with our niece Lauren in London and spent the day at the Bricklaying markets and tried a variety of scrumptious food which was great.\u00a0 What a glorious sunny day.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday we took the train up to Bridlington and met up with the motorhome owners who had been incredibly kind and trusting to keep it until we arrived here.\u00a0 The motorhome was everything we had expected and is absolutely perfect for our travels.\u00a0 The owners have left in all bedding, crockery, cookware, camp chairs, table etc which is a godsend with us not having to worry about buying everything.\u00a0 We are staying in a b&amp;b in Bridlington at the moment and tomorrow (16\/4 Thursday) we are taking our hire car back to Hull and coming back up to Bridlington and picking the campervan up to start our true adventure.<\/p>\n<p>We had hoped to be over in France for Anzac day, but we now think it would be wise to stay in England for a couple of weeks to get a feel for the van as it has a lot of different things that we didn&#8217;t learn about when we hired the campervan in NZ last year.\u00a0 Plus we are thinking we want to do a couple of things to the van like a bike rack etc and talk to a Puegot expert about some of the things in the van.\u00a0 I have posted some photos of the van.\u00a0 Next blog once we are 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We met up with our niece Lauren in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwihoods.com\/?p=18\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our first days in England<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","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":[5,4],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-england","tag-campervan","tag-england","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5WjG3-i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwihoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwihoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwihoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwihoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwihoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwihoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwihoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwihoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwihoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwihoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}