{"id":183,"date":"2002-04-22T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-22T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=183"},"modified":"2010-06-13T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T17:52:09","slug":"183","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Training in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4pm<\/p>\n<p>Location:  onboard the Patras-Kalamata train, just past Kavissila.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a beautiful day, and I&#8217;m getting a good introduction to the ways and tempos of Greece.  The train I&#8217;m on is ancient but clean, winding down the west coast of the Poloponnesian Peninsula, past vineyards and orchards of oranges and lemons.  The country seems on a par with Portugal, in terms of wealth, with arguably less infrastructure but also none of the pervasive sense of disappointment with the present that I picked up in Lisbon.  Greece is moving forward, but taking its own sweet time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to head for Kalamata today, which will get me in late, but close enough to Finikoundas, on the southwest corner, for an easy trip tomorrow morning.  I am obviously a bit concerned about finding somewhere to stay in Kalamata at 8pm, so I may yet change my mind and hop off earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4pm Location: onboard the Patras-Kalamata train, just past Kavissila. It&#8217;s a beautiful day, and I&#8217;m getting a good introduction to the ways and tempos of Greece. The train I&#8217;m on is ancient but clean, winding down the west coast of the Poloponnesian Peninsula, past vineyards and orchards of oranges and lemons. The country seems on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2002-mediterranean-tour","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}