{"id":123,"date":"2004-05-04T13:24:18","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T13:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2004-05-04T13:24:18","modified_gmt":"2004-05-04T13:24:18","slug":"eurostar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/eurostar\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurostar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurostar.com\">Eurostar<\/a> is a high speed train that connects London Waterloo with Paris Gare du Nord.<br \/>\nWaterloo Station is a bit run down except for the new part that the Eurostar arrives\/leaves from.<br \/>\n3 hours or so between cities.  Nice.  But not exactly high speed all the way.<br \/>\nLeaving London, the train is running on batteries since there&#8217;s no overhead wires on these tracks.  So for the first 20 minutes or so, you&#8217;re creeping along slower than a Tube train.  Once you reach Ashford, the new tracks and new lines are there and then you whooosh along at over 100 MPH.<br \/>\nUnlike the Shinkansen, the Eurostar has a club car where you can purchase snacks or microwave sandwiches.  The service is at best, leisurely.  The prices expensive (many people brought their own food) but at least they serve beer!<br \/>\nThere was a break in the weather, but it was just that, a break.  On the 35 minute trip on the Tube to Waterloo, it was clear but it&#8217;s raining again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurostar is a high speed train that connects London Waterloo with Paris Gare du Nord. Waterloo Station is a bit run down except for the new part that the Eurostar arrives\/leaves from. 3 hours or so between cities. Nice. But not exactly high speed all the way. Leaving London, the train is running on batteries &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/eurostar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eurostar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2004-05-lhr-cdg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2mgIi-eurostar","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}