{"id":1116,"date":"2011-09-24T16:57:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T16:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2014-09-15T21:40:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T19:40:31","slug":"angouleme-day-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/angouleme-day-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Day trip to Angouleme for the volunteers at La Giraudiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>A Volunteers day trip to Angouleme<\/h1>\n<p>The day started bright and early at La Giraudiere today as Derrick and Gayle took off to continue their adventure through France.\u00a0 We will definitely miss our Canadian couple at LG -and our stomachs will most surly miss mum\u2019s cooking- but we hope they have a fabulous time on the rest of their journey!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Angoul\u00eame_cathedral.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1918\" title=\"Angouleme_cathedral\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Angoul\u00eame_cathedral-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cathedral_in_Angouleme\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Angoul\u00eame_cathedral-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Angoul\u00eame_cathedral-740x1024.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Angoul\u00eame_cathedral.jpg 1109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>As noon gets closer, the group gets ready for a day trip to Angoul\u00eame that Paul has offered to tour. It\u2019s about a 50-minute drive through the French countryside, and the views are just stunning.<\/p>\n<p>Angouleme -the capital of the Charente Department- is a lovely town located on a hilltop, surrounded by city walls that can be dated back to the 4<sup>th<\/sup> century! The old city can be walked quite easily, so we spent out evening touring its main attractions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;One of the things we found while there was Paul\u2019s mobile restaurant van!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1116\/img_1862\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1117 alignleft\" title=\"IMG_1862\" src=\"http:\/\/lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1862-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1862-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1862-401x300.jpg 401w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1862.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2026Although it\u2019s a different \u201cPaul\u201d we suggested a van to be incorporated in LG\u2019s future plans. Doesn\u2019t it look nice? ; )<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Volunteers day trip to Angouleme The day started bright and early at La Giraudiere today as Derrick and Gayle took off to continue their adventure through France.\u00a0 We will definitely miss our Canadian couple at LG -and our stomachs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/angouleme-day-trip\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}