{"id":2637,"date":"2025-05-11T22:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T21:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ndhop.org\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2025-05-11T22:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T21:13:19","slug":"wales-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/?p=2637","title":{"rendered":"Wales Day 1 (Day 32)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250511_1211597961013816204954703-1024x473.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2636\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Severn Crossing <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well quite a day&#8230; left Chepstow at 11.20 this morning after a train from Glouster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beautiful sunny morning but come the afternoon&#8230; i can only assume the farmers were praying and in came the rain.. gallons of it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seemed to make the fact the campsite showers weren&#8217;t working as mildly irrelevant due to my previous shower during the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway in chronological order.. In the morning I met up the Andrew and Ruth Price plus extended family. Was lovely to see their vision for their land and hear their stories. They have a wonderful venue.&nbsp; Do check thecominghomeproject on Google..&nbsp; https:\/\/www.thecominghomeproject.online\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a farm tour i headed back north over some unsigned very big hills until I passed Abergavenny to my west&nbsp; and raglan to the East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was too keenly aware of my lack on training particularly as I came over the Gospel Pass. Reportedly one of the highest road in Wales. It took a lot if getting into.. that is the almost rising steps as I ascended the pass from the southern side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I took a few minutes to sing amazing Grace to the Lord in the rain and then took the very fast decent into Hay on Wye. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I arrived at my campsite soaked literally to the skin as I jacket I&#8217;d picked up on vinted&nbsp; seemed more like a wet suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I set up my bivi and then cooked myself pasta tuna sweetcorn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More tomorrow. 12 noon prayer for Wales on zoom. Please email office@ndhop.org for info and the link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GB Jim <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well quite a day&#8230; left Chepstow at 11.20 this morning after a train from Glouster. Beautiful sunny morning but come the afternoon&#8230; i can only assume the farmers were praying and in came the rain.. gallons of it! It seemed to make the fact the campsite showers weren&#8217;t working as mildly irrelevant due to my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[10,13],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pedalandpray","tag-prayer-crossingwales","tag-pedalandpray"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}