{"id":120,"date":"2013-09-07T19:10:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T18:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/wp\/?p=120"},"modified":"2014-01-03T19:50:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T18:50:56","slug":"arrived-in-milton-keynes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Arrived in Milton Keynes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The night ferry provided me with some warmth, food, and a good night\u2019s sleep, and when I got off at Harwich, the morning was crisp, but dry.\u00a0 I looked forward to seeing the sun.\u00a0 But driving Westward, on the South side of the road, means that the sun is constantly behind the trees lining the road.\u00a0 At my first stop in the UK after some 50 km\u2019s, it took me 5 to 10 minutes before I could hold the coffee without shaking it over the rim.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the A-roads all the way from Harwich to Milton Keynes I arrived at the museum at 13:00.\u00a0 Had made very good time, and had an hour to spare before I could check in into the hotel.\u00a0 I spent that time talking to a local cyclist who was having a quick stop on the parking lot.\u00a0 He made the \u201cI am there\u201d-proof photo which I could post in my Facebook and which s posted below.\u00a0 I always keep a record of the trips online, just to let everyone know if I am OK (or not, as is to be read below).<\/p>\n<p>The Cock Hotel proved to be a very nice place, and so did the historic center in which it was located.\u00a0 Having worked for American companies for the past 25 years, I only knew the business side of Milton Keynes.\u00a0 It was good to see how the integration of the old villages was done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arrived-at-the-museum.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-121\" alt=\"Photo in front of the museum entrance\" src=\"http:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arrived-at-the-museum-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arrived-at-the-museum-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arrived-at-the-museum-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arrived-at-the-museum-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The night ferry provided me with some warmth, food, and a good night\u2019s sleep, and when I got off at Harwich, the morning was crisp, but dry.\u00a0 I looked forward to seeing the sun.\u00a0&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-quicklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsuquickly.nl\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}