{"id":1528,"date":"2018-09-10T12:59:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T12:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2018-09-10T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T13:00:50","slug":"a-trip-to-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/a-trip-to-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trip to Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the second half of the month of August, we made our way to Hythe, Kent, U.K. to visit our son, Joe, his wife, Steph, and their two children, Freya (4) and James (2).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1531\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Hythe4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1531\" class=\"wp-image-1531 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Hythe4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Hythe4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Hythe4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Hythe4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">High Street of Hythe (The picture is actually from a previous visit.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mercifully we had no major travel issues on this trip. For the most part flights took off and landed when they were supposed to. Turbulence and other disturbances were minimal. Of course, the flight across the ocean is long and I just don\u2019t seem able to sleep on planes, but there were a couple of movies I wanted to see available, and I\u2019d loaded my ereader with several books from authors I knew I liked, so I weathered the journeys reasonably well.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived in a pouring rain and when Joe came to meet us, an accident on the Motorway around London meant we took some extensive detours to avoid the logjam. But by later that day, the rain let up and for the most part we had great weather.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Family2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1530\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Family2-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Family2-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Family2-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Family2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It was wonderful to see everyone again! We had a great visit that involved a lot of walking around the area, a couple of longer day trips to visit interesting places, and spending lots of time talking, eating, and playing with the family.<\/p>\n<p>Steph\u2019s parents graciously welcomed us to stay in their home and we enjoyed spending time with them and the comfortable arrangements they provided. It certainly made the trip easier on all of us.<\/p>\n<p>You can read my musings on how wonderful it was to be able to walk to so many places at the <a href=\"http:\/\/classicandcozybooks.blogspot.com\/2018\/09\/the-delights-of-walking-everywhere.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Classic \u2018n\u2019 Cozy Blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More details on some of the side trips we took and a few odd details of the visit to come. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1529\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Family1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1529\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1529\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Family1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Family1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Family1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Family1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All of us (except me, taking the picture) with Steph&#8217;s parents and grandparents.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the second half of the month of August, we made our way to Hythe, Kent, U.K. to visit our son, Joe, his wife, Steph, and their two children, Freya (4) and James (2). Mercifully we had no major travel <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/a-trip-to-kent\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,62],"tags":[84,85],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-travel","tag-england","tag-hythe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}