{"id":3093,"date":"2025-06-11T07:59:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T06:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ndhop.org\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T06:59:35","slug":"day-7-athlone-to-galway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/?p=3093","title":{"rendered":"Day 7 Athlone to Galway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Had a great night&#8217;s sleep at Kevin and Rachel&#8217;s in Athlone. Up early and on the road by 8.30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/17496279951423737399408275509131-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3096\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Took a route by the marina on the river. At the end of the above bridge and guy was sat in the sunshine and I felt led to have a chat with him. Eddie had preciously been an electoral engineer. I asked him about faith and spirituality he responded that he liked Richard Dawkins. The conversation fortunately changed direction and I then had opportunity to share my testimony. I drew our conversation to a close and headed east towards Galway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some lovely flat roads lay ahead of me giving me better progress. I got 10km short of Balinasloe and Trevor Hill called me. We&#8217;d met previously but not to any great extent so it was great to spend some time over brunch chatting and hearing each other&#8217;s stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250611_1257286057633362185229532-1024x473.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3097\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After lunch I pedaled on and after a short stop in Athanry and opportunity to give testimony I continued to a village just outside Galway where I met last night&#8217;s hosts and parents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prayer&#8230; please pray the riots in Ballymena stop. By rain or God&#8217;s hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a great night&#8217;s sleep at Kevin and Rachel&#8217;s in Athlone. Up early and on the road by 8.30. Took a route by the marina on the river. At the end of the above bridge and guy was sat in the sunshine and I felt led to have a chat with him. Eddie had preciously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3095,"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":[23],"class_list":["post-3093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pedalandpray","tag-prayer-crossingireland-pedalandpray"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","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=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}