{"id":144,"date":"2010-06-07T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paualready.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2010-06-07T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T18:30:08","slug":"tour-here-we-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Tour! Here we come."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paualready.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tourdefr1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-78\" title=\"Tour de France\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paualready.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tourdefr1.jpg?resize=274%2C468\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a>Planning for the Tour de France 2010 and More trip is pretty much complete. This is, after all, the real retirement celebration kick-off and we need to do it in style. Key destinations thus far include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fly to CDG-Paris and take the TGV Brugge.<\/li>\n<li>Rotterdam for the TDF prologue and the departure of Stage 1.<\/li>\n<li>A quick train trip to Brussels to catch the finish of Stage 1.<\/li>\n<li>Watch the departure of Stage 2 from Brussels\u00a0and then head to Copenhagen for a few day in Scandinavia.<\/li>\n<li>Fly to Berlin for a few days exploring the both sides of what was once the wall. Laurel actually drove through the east, back when it was under the thumb of those godless Commies.<\/li>\n<li>Head to Dijon, via rail, with an overnight in Strasbourg (it&#8217;s a long trip).<\/li>\n<li>Five nights at an apartment in Dijon. Our hostess, Coco, will pick us up at the gare.\u00a0I&#8217;m really looking forward to checking out the neighborhood bistros, charcuteries, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Drive to Lyon and then on to Bordeaux. Lyon is one of my favorite French dining destination.<\/li>\n<li>In Bordeaux we&#8217;ll catch the finish of Stage 18 and then watch Stage 19, the Bordeaux to Pauillac individual time trials and then take the TGV to Paris for the grand finalle.<\/li>\n<li>In Paris, we have reserved seating on the\u00a0Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es. The seats are advertised to include &#8216;refreshment&#8217; which I assume will include a bit of vin blanc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Surprisingly, the Dollar\/Euro rate is heading in the right direction for us. We still have 3 weeks until we hit The Continent, but I doubt it&#8217;ll rates will change that much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planning for the Tour de France 2010 and More trip is pretty much complete. This is, after all, the real retirement celebration kick-off and we need to do it in style. Key destinations thus far include: Fly to CDG-Paris and take the TGV Brugge. Rotterdam for the TDF prologue and the departure of Stage 1. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/?p=144\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tour! Here we come.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tdf-2010","category-trips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6E0Kx-2k","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paualready.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}