{"id":2745,"date":"2019-05-08T04:11:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T09:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2024-06-17T18:51:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T22:51:25","slug":"190508-well-people-wanted-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/190508-well-people-wanted-excitement\/","title":{"rendered":"190508-Well, People Wanted Excitement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The flight over turned uneventful. Rob and I had ended up on different flights given our differing trip schedules (he flies back from Rome in a couple weeks; I continue on to Athens). My bicycle showed up promptly at a clearly-marked Oversize Bag door. I had everything assembled by the time Rob’s flight was due.<\/p>\n

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We connected easily via messaging. His bicycle? Not so much. Messaging back and forth, he tracked his bicycle back to JFK. Should arrive tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I’d chosen the nearby Malpensa Fiero Hostel in preparation for eventualities. We rode a train there, my bicycle in tow. I don’t agree with the hostel’s high rating, but nice enough. Mostly empty, they put us in a two-person private room, providing a place to store my bicycle. Also worked on it a bit, as it still needed a few tweaks, usually made just outside the airport!<\/p>\n

Tomorrow we spend the day in Milan, picking up (hopefully) Rob’s bicycle in the late afternoon at the airport. I’d planned on a day in Milan for just this type of eventuality. And, you know, Milan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The flight over turned uneventful. Rob and I had ended up on different flights given our differing trip schedules (he flies back from Rome in a couple weeks; I continue on to Athens). My bicycle showed up promptly at a clearly-marked Oversize Bag door. I had everything assembled by the time Rob’s flight was due. … Continue reading “190508-Well, People Wanted Excitement”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-touring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}