{"id":223,"date":"2008-08-25T19:02:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T18:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2008-08-25T19:02:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T18:02:49","slug":"efteling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/25\/efteling\/","title":{"rendered":"Efteling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is a nifty park! I woke up at 7 but we couldn\u00c2\u00b4t go into the park until about 9.45, so we had breakfast and a bimble and an update of the blog, then headed into the park. The nifty rollercoaster, Python, was shut. Joe looked rather relieved but I was disappointed. It stayed closed all day as well (mentioned it at the hotel and they even checked to see if it would open tomorrow, but probably not). So we rode Pegasus which was fun. Then just worked our way around the park stopping for rides every now and again. After lunch we headed back to the hotel and got Joe\u00c2\u00b4s camera. He took about 120 photos of the park. And we got to ride Roc which is a very nifty rollercoaster.<\/p>\n<p>Efteling is larger than it appears, we missed several things and probably need to come back. But it was a very fun day! Off tomorrow to head back towards Amsterdam; not sure what we\u00c2\u00b4ll do on the way. May stop at Delft but we\u00c2\u00b4ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a nifty park! I woke up at 7 but we couldn\u00c2\u00b4t go into the park until about 9.45, so we had breakfast and a bimble and an update of the blog, then headed into the park. The nifty rollercoaster, Python, was shut. Joe looked rather relieved but I was disappointed. It stayed closed all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4T97-efteling","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/25\/west-side-story\/","url_meta":{"origin":223,"position":0},"title":"West Side Story","date":"Friday, 25 May 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Up and out after a rather noisy night. This hotel is noisy and the building work next door doesn't help at all. Really needs double glazing. As we left we noticed we don't have a peephole thingy, just a hole in the door. That's interesting. The door is also a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Travel&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":292,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/13\/sunday-rock-n-roll\/","url_meta":{"origin":223,"position":1},"title":"Sunday &#8211; Rock n Roll","date":"Sunday, 13 September 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Goals for the day: get to EuroDisney, get checked in, have lunch, ride the Rock 'n' Rollercoaster (as it would be closed the rest of the week). So we're up early, too early for a Sunday, and head out to the station. 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