{"id":137,"date":"2014-01-05T16:49:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T16:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2014-11-24T17:28:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T17:28:50","slug":"sunday-tilbury-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/sunday-tilbury-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday &#8211; Tilbury, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemHeader\">\n<p>Today, we arrived back in Tilbury. All the passengers left the Marco Polo to make way for a whole new bunch. Doing a back-to-back like this is a new experience for me; in the matter of only a few hours, the entire ship would take on a fresh new personality. In the past, I&#8217;ve always left the ship along with them, heading home, looking forward to broadband, home cooking and our big shower&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemContent\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">After breakfast, I accompanied Tracey to Tilbury Town railway station, a short 20 minutes walk from the Terminal, to see her off on her journey home, and returned back to the ship in the hopes of doing some work whilst I could get a decent wi-fi connection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">A short while after returning, I was told that our campervan, parked at that time in a large warehouse adjoining the terminal would have to be moved. It was decided that vehicles parked in there were at risk; the roof had suffered some damage in the high winds and with more storms on the way, they decided that it was unsafe&#8230; if I&#8217;d have known earlier, I could have run Tracey to the station in the campervan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">So, I had to return to the dockside to relocate Dora the Explorer to another long-term parking warehouse across the road&#8230; I&#8217;m sure the short run was good for her, though, and the alternative warehouse does look much sturdier (it&#8217;s just going to be a bit of a pain retrieving it in 6 weeks time).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">Lots of new faces, and a few familiar faces too&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">At 5:30, we leave for our first port of call, Amsterdam&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">Here we go again&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we arrived back in Tilbury. All the passengers left the Marco Polo to make way for a whole new bunch. Doing a back-to-back like this is a new experience for me; in the matter of only a few hours, the entire ship would take on a fresh new personality. In the past, I&#8217;ve always left the ship along with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}