{"id":375,"date":"2007-09-15T14:21:23","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T21:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2007-09-15T14:21:23","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T21:21:23","slug":"oz-report-part-20-day-trip-to-belmont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Oz Report &#8211; Part 20 &#8211; Day trip to Belmont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Today was our last day in Australia, and we had arranged to take a trip to see my family up in Belmont. By comparison with our other trips, this was a short drive (just around 100km) and we arrived at about 10.30am at Betty &#038; Jack&#8217;s house. We got to talking about this and that, and catching up, and a short time later Doug and Julie and their son Jackson arrived.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88319047@N00\/1367561099\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1203\/1367561099_92a70a1519.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Family in Belmont\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike and Nada arrived with Tony, who had recently driven over from Dubbo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88319047@N00\/1368457058\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1261\/1368457058_850e967c94.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Family in Belmont\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88319047@N00\/1368457224\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1186\/1368457224_669d6fdb78.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Family in Belmont\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a lovely lunch of barbecued sausages, chicken and lamb, with various salads and potatoes. Mini-Elbeno enjoyed playing with the various toys available while we chatted and got to know the family. Betty and Jack gave the small chap a gift of a stuffed koala with Australian accoutrements (hat and flag), and all too soon it was time to leave and brave the holiday weekend traffic back to Sydney.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88319047@N00\/1367561153\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1339\/1367561153_e75d3fa4f9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Road Scenery\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday. Today was our last day in Australia, and we had arranged to take a trip to see my family up in Belmont. By comparison with our other trips, this was a short drive (just around 100km) and we arrived at about 10.30am at Betty &#038; Jack&#8217;s house. We got&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}