{"id":660,"date":"2008-02-24T12:33:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T12:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2008\/02\/24\/relaxing-by-the-sea\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T11:52:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T11:52:03","slug":"relaxing-by-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2008\/02\/24\/relaxing-by-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Relaxing by the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a cold week up in the mountains I needed somewhere warm to relax and worked out that I could get to San Fernando (La Union province) without too much difficulty.  The guidebook mentioned that there were some nice beaches nearby.<\/p>\n<p>So after a long day on cramped buses I arrived in the little town of San Juan, just north of San Fernando.  It&#8217;s full of surf resorts, so I just wandered along the road until I found one with a room at a decent price.  I ended up with a nice little en-suite room right beside the beach for P500\/night at Hacienda Peter&#8217;s Surf Resort.  They also do lovely meals for only P50 and there&#8217;s a fridge full of beer, you just have to tell them how many you&#8217;ve drunk.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Philippines\/SanJuan\/ViewFromRoom_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Philippines\/SanJuan\/ViewFromRoom_t.jpg\" title=\"The view from my room.\" alt=\"A beach seen from the veranda of a hotel room.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Philippines\/SanJuan\/Beach1_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Philippines\/SanJuan\/Beach1_t.jpg\" title=\"Surfer standing on the beach.\" alt=\"A surfer stands holding his fluorescent yellow board, at the end of a curving beach.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Philippines\/SanJuan\/Surfers3_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Philippines\/SanJuan\/Surfers3_t.jpg\" title=\"Surfers at San Juan.\" alt=\"Two surfers surfing.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Philippines\/SanJuan\/Sunset3_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Philippines\/SanJuan\/Sunset3_t.jpg\" title=\"Sunset at San Juan.\" alt=\"The sun hangs just above the sea at the end of a curving beach, with a glowing streak of light reflected in the water and the wet sand.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had a very relaxing few days there, lounging around, occasionally swimming and watching the surfing.  On Friday, when I was leaving, they were holding a surf competition on the beach.  Of course, that was the day when there were almost no waves at all, I felt sorry for the competitors bobbing about and desperately waiting for a wave before their time ran out.<\/p>\n<p>Late on Friday night I caught a bus to Manila, the start of my journey back home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a cold week up in the mountains I needed somewhere warm to relax and worked out that I could get to San Fernando (La Union province) without too much difficulty. The guidebook mentioned that there were some nice beaches nearby. So after a long day on cramped buses I arrived in the little town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines","category-rtw","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","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=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}