{"id":2596,"date":"2010-08-14T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2010\/08\/al-and-amber-visit\/"},"modified":"2010-08-14T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T19:47:00","slug":"al-and-amber-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2010\/08\/al-and-amber-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Al and Amber visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alastair and Amber visited this week. They&#8217;re planning a cycle touring trip through Germany, Austria, Italy, and Switzerland. They are starting at my place in Oberstdorf and will end up in Freiburg sometime in September. I&#8217;ll meet them there. Of course I will take the easier option and go by car.<\/p>\n<p>We spent the week walking in the hills, cycling, avoiding the rain. As I am too lazy to write much I shall post photos instead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/amberclimbingallgaeugermany_resize4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Amber climbing (Allgaeu, Germany) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/amberclimbingallgaeugermany_resize-small5.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/amberandalinfrontofcrossallgaeugermany_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Amber and Al infront of cross (Allgaeu, Germany) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/amberandalinfrontofcrossallgaeugermany_resize-small4.jpg\" width=\"126\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: Amber and Al on Riffenkopf in Allgaeu.<\/p>\n<p>Below left: Al and Cris riding by the Iller. Below right: Al and Amber in the Breitlachklamm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/crisandalallgaeugermany_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cris and Al (Allgaeu, Germany) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/crisandalallgaeugermany_resize-small4.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/alandamberinbreitlachklammgermany_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Al and Amber in Breitlachklamm (Germany) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/alandamberinbreitlachklammgermany_resize-small4.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/crisisagerman4oberstdorfgermany_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cris is a German 4 (Oberstdorf, Germany) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/crisisagerman4oberstdorfgermany_resize-small4.jpg\" width=\"126\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Above: Cris did his best to dress in camouflage so as to fit in with the natives. Below: Al, Amber, Cris, and a native at the Allg\u00e4u Festwoche. Beer was consumed. Cheesy festival music was played.  <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/alambercrisandfraukeatfestwochekemptengermany_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Al, Amber, Cris, and Frauke at Festwoche (Kempten, Germany) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/alambercrisandfraukeatfestwochekemptengermany_resize-small4.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below: Mmmm icecream&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mmmmicecreamallgaeugermany_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mmmm icecream (Allgaeu, Germany) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mmmmicecreamallgaeugermany_resize-small4.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alastair and Amber visited this week. They&#8217;re planning a cycle touring trip through Germany, Austria, Italy, and Switzerland. They are starting at my place in Oberstdorf and will end up in Freiburg sometime in September. I&#8217;ll meet them there. Of course I will take the easier option and go by car. We spent the week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgau","category-germany","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}