{"id":211,"date":"2014-02-10T15:30:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T15:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2014-04-04T06:19:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T06:19:20","slug":"bike-trip-to-cobh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Bike trip to Cobh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got new bikes and decided to take them out for a short spin out to Cobh (pronounced Cove, as far as I can tell).\u00a0 I have never seen the movie or read anything about the Titanic, but apparently, that is where the fateful journey last saw land.\u00a0 The ride started well enough, mostly on a nice bike path.\u00a0 It was quite windy, but we are tough.\u00a0 We took a quick ferry across the west passage and rode into town.\u00a0 We visited the Titanic experience (although, we didn&#8217;t actually go into the exhibit) then grabbed a coffee to warm up in town.\u00a0 Getting out of town was a little more harrowing.\u00a0 The streets are very narrow and steep getting out of Cobh and they progressively got busier and busier in conjunction with the weather getting worse and worse.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good starter trip.\u00a0 Looking forward to many more bike adventures.\u00a0 We love the new bikes.<\/p>\n<p>You can see all Bret&#8217;s pics at:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blog.bretbosma.com\/cobh-bike-ride\/<\/p>\n<p>before the last 3-4 miles of riding on the double-carriage way (aka- highway) in the rain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0306.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-162\" alt=\"DSC_0306\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0306.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0306.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0306-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>after riding in the rain on a double-carriage way<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0345.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-175\" alt=\"DSC_0345\" src=\"http:\/\/bretandemily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0345.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0345.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0345-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If I thought that driving in Ireland was terrifying&#8230;\u00a0 Riding a bike on the highway in the rain gave me a whole new appreciation for the safety of golf-cart sized cars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got new bikes and decided to take them out for a short spin out to Cobh (pronounced Cove, as far as I can tell).\u00a0 I have never seen the movie or read anything about the Titanic, but apparently, that is where the fateful journey last saw land.\u00a0 The ride started well enough, mostly on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-rides","category-cobh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}