{"id":4340,"date":"2016-08-08T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2016-07-31T08:08:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T08:08:11","slug":"greetings-from-the-netherlands-plus-some-piccolo-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2016\/08\/08\/greetings-from-the-netherlands-plus-some-piccolo-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from the Netherlands plus some Piccolo titles."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I hope this blog launches today as scheduled as I am currently enjoying the hospitality of the Dutch travelling on vintage steam ships and trains if all goes according to plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hitch1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hitch1-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hitch1\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hitch1-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hitch1.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>I may need to take my &#8216;Hitch-Hiker&#8217;s Guide to Europe&#8217; and so I&#8217;ve just added a scan of the first edition to the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Blog\/Languages\/Travellers.htm\">Travellers<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">page<\/span><\/span>. I spent a lot of time in the 60&#8217;s hitch-hiking around Ireland and when I looked at this book this week I though you couldn&#8217;t actually live on some of the prices quoted in the 1971 edition but on doing a few sums I think you could. It was written for the US\u00a0traveller so prices tend to be in cents so\u00a070 cents for a bed and 50 cents for a meal with an exchange rate of two and a half dollars to the pound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Craft-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Craft-1-300x71.jpg\" alt=\"Craft\" width=\"300\" height=\"71\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Craft-1-300x71.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Craft-1.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I mentioned the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Piccolo\/CraftBooks.htm\">Piccolo Craft <\/a><\/span>series of books and have now found a third title for knitters, the search goes on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Colour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Colour-300x65.jpg\" alt=\"Colour\" width=\"300\" height=\"65\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Colour-300x65.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Colour.jpg 762w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I picked up a copy of the tie-in to the appalling children&#8217;s television series <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DD.jpg\">&#8216;The Double Deckers&#8217; <\/a><\/span>saying it was in the<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Piccolo\/ColourBooks.htm\">Piccolo Colour <\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">series of books but it just doesn&#8217;t seem to fit in with the ones I already have on the site, anyone any ideas apart from it does have colour photos in it?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope this blog launches today as scheduled as I am currently enjoying the hospitality of the Dutch travelling on vintage steam ships and trains if all goes according to plan. I may need to take my &#8216;Hitch-Hiker&#8217;s Guide to Europe&#8217; and so I&#8217;ve just added a scan of the first edition to the Travellers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}