{"id":2200,"date":"2014-05-08T22:32:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T22:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2014-05-11T12:36:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T12:36:29","slug":"no-guernsey-but-a-beautiful-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/08\/no-guernsey-but-a-beautiful-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"No Guernsey but a Beautiful Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2201\" style=\"width: 808px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/boat-view-with-clouds.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2201\" alt=\"Ships's eye view, hills and clouds on the Seine\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/boat-view-with-clouds.jpg?resize=660%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/boat-view-with-clouds.jpg?w=808&amp;ssl=1 808w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/boat-view-with-clouds.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/boat-view-with-clouds.jpg?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ships&#8217;s eye view, hills and clouds on the Seine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It turns out you can&#8217;t get into the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royal.gov.uk\/MonarchUK\/QueenandCrowndependencies\/ChannelIslands.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"> Channel Islands<\/a>, at least not St. Peter&#8217;s Port, in <a href=\"www.visitguernsey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guernsey<\/a>, without a small boat called a &#8220;tender&#8221; to take you into the small harbor from the large ship that won&#8217;t fit. \u00a0It turns out that if the seas are rough and it&#8217;s raining, traveling in those tenders is way too dangerous, so stopping at Guernsey is not possible.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2202\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Boat-seine-river-wide.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2202\" alt=\"Our view of the journey\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Boat-seine-river-wide.jpg?resize=640%2C421&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Boat-seine-river-wide.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Boat-seine-river-wide.jpg?resize=300%2C197&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Boat-seine-river-wide.jpg?resize=624%2C410&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our view of the journey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It turns out that there were no available ports or pilots to provide an alternative so it turns out that we spent the whole day sailing down the Seine to Rouen, where we&#8217;re currently docked.<\/p>\n<p>The trip was green and beautiful and rain-swept. \u00a0We had nice long lunches and dinners with very cool people on board. \u00a0Share the view; tomorrow we&#8217;re going exploring and taking you along.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/boat-greenery-.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2203\" alt=\"boat greenery\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/boat-greenery-.jpg?resize=360%2C234&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"360\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/boat-greenery-.jpg?resize=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/boat-greenery-.jpg?resize=624%2C407&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/boat-greenery-.jpg?w=636&amp;ssl=1 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out you can&#8217;t get into the Channel Islands, at least not St. Peter&#8217;s Port, in Guernsey, without a small boat called a &#8220;tender&#8221; to take you into the small harbor from the large ship that won&#8217;t fit. \u00a0It turns out that if the seas are rough and it&#8217;s raining, traveling in those tenders &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/08\/no-guernsey-but-a-beautiful-trip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Guernsey but a Beautiful Trip<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[97,78],"tags":[2643,2661,2663,2655,2656,2659,2657,2621,2640,2619,2662,2658,2660],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","category-travel","tag-at-sea","tag-boats","tag-channel-islands","tag-france","tag-guernsey","tag-high-seas","tag-rouen","tag-seabourn","tag-seabourn-cruise","tag-seabourn-quest","tag-seine","tag-storms","tag-tenders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-zu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}