{"id":472,"date":"2005-12-25T14:34:34","date_gmt":"2005-12-25T14:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/?p=472"},"modified":"2006-08-22T21:30:40","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T21:30:40","slug":"christmas-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2005\/12\/25\/christmas-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas on the beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started my day with a swim before breakfast and a trip up to the supermarket to buy some phone credit.  On my return I discovered chaos among our group, Jenny and Karin had decided they would climb the mountain after all.  I kept out of the way while they discussed what would need to be reorganised and decided to head for the market to buy boots.<\/p>\n<p>The first group left for the beach only slightly late as a result, with me guiding them to Mile 11 beach.  I phoned home, gloated a little bit about basking on the beach while everyone in Scotland was freezing and got a call from my granny in Norfolk.  The beach was much busier than when we had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2005\/12\/23\/primates-phones-and-beach-scouting\/\">scouted<\/a> but was still lovely, warm water crashing over the chocolate-coloured sand.  We had lunch, chatted, read and swam.  Everyone enjoyed the Christmas cake that had made it all the way from granny to Limbe.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/Mile11Beach_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/Mile11Beach_t.jpg\" alt=\"Beach and sea with people swimming\" title=\"Mile 11 beach, Christmas Day\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/GroupAtMile11Beach_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Cameroon\/Dec05\/GroupAtMile11Beach_t.jpg\" alt=\"Pete, Amy, Jonathan, Kay and Indar sitting at a concrete table\" title=\"Part of the group at Mile 11 beach\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We wanted to be back before dark, so we left the hotel and waited for a taxi with the crowd on the Limbe road.  The hotel security guard wasn&#8217;t keen to have a large group of white people hanging around on the road, so he phoned for two taxis and we got to skip the queue (again).<\/p>\n<p>Dinner was back at the Miramare, I had their very nice pepper steak and then retired to my room to pack for our departure up the mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started my day with a swim before breakfast and a trip up to the supermarket to buy some phone credit. On my return I discovered chaos among our group, Jenny and Karin had decided they would climb the mountain after all. I kept out of the way while they discussed what would need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameroon","category-friends","category-travel","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}