{"id":306,"date":"2021-08-21T13:14:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T12:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robmayo.co.uk\/?p=306"},"modified":"2021-08-21T13:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T12:14:11","slug":"inverness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robmayo.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/08\/21\/inverness\/","title":{"rendered":"Inverness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After walking approximately 116 miles (186km) I have reached Inverness the first major milestone of my journey. A glass of Laphroaig whisky to celebrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve given myself a few days rest to recover; today I set of for Glasgow, 170 miles (274km) south west of Inverness, my goal is to be there by September 6th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My observations from the first leg of this journey:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The people are helpful and friendly &#8211; giving me advice on my route, walking with me on my route, even once offering me a ride in there car \ud83d\ude01<\/li><li>Hikers\/holidayers have a mixed to poor reputation, I&#8217;ve been told by countless people that due to the success of the NC500 route + covid limiting foreign travel, the number of people camping etc has exploded and the people who aren&#8217;t behaving responsibly and leaving there environment in a mess are angering the locals, I was even told the story of a Hurst that couldn&#8217;t reach a funeral because of motorhomes parked in the cemetery blocking the entrance!<\/li><li>Wildcamping hasn&#8217;t been what I expected, so far it&#8217;s been climbing over gates or barbed wire fence to sit in a farmer&#8217;s field, hopefully this will improve once I&#8217;m passing through the Cairngorn national park.<\/li><li>Ample time to reflect on career, life and everything else. Walking in the outdoors and living simply has brought some clarity to my thinking.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. Onwards!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After walking approximately 116 miles (186km) I have reached Inverness the first major milestone of my journey. A glass of Laphroaig whisky to celebrate. I&#8217;ve given myself a few days rest to recover; today I set of for Glasgow, 170 miles (274km) south west of Inverness, my goal is to be there by September 6th. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robmayo.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robmayo.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robmayo.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robmayo.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robmayo.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robmayo.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/www.robmayo.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robmayo.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robmayo.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robmayo.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robmayo.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}