{"id":445,"date":"2006-03-27T15:39:12","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T15:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2006-03-27T15:39:12","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T15:39:12","slug":"andrea_and_bessy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/andrea_and_bessy\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea and Bessy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today was the big winery day!  Andrea and Bessy work at the YHA, cleaning up the rooms and common areas and generally making it look spiffy.  I saw a walking vacuum cleaner in the common room early in the morning and was perturbed until I saw it was just the vacuum cleaner wearing Andrea for propulsion.  They stay for free in exchange for work.  A lot of places that cater to backpackers in Oz have this kind of arrangement, according to Andrea.  She&#8217;s doing this because picking fruit for 10 hours a day is not her cuppa tea (she&#8217;s English).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bessandrea.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bessandrea.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bessandrea-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Andrea on the left side from LHR, Bessy&#8217;s to her left from YYZ <\/em><br \/>\nFlorio also joined us.  He&#8217;s from northern Italy.  The part of Italy where they learn German in addition to Italian and the nearest airport is in Austria (?).  I think he was either camera shy or was taking pix of the girls too.  He learned english in four weeks using CDs and books and he&#8217;s more articulate than many of my frens in SF. Of course a lot of them are in IT so they speak an completely different language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today was the big winery day! Andrea and Bessy work at the YHA, cleaning up the rooms and common areas and generally making it look spiffy. I saw a walking vacuum cleaner in the common room early in the morning and was perturbed until I saw it was just the vacuum cleaner wearing Andrea &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/andrea_and_bessy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Andrea and Bessy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2006-03-syd-and-the-hunter-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-7b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","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=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}