{"id":76,"date":"2012-05-29T07:55:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joncu.roguenet.org\/swissblog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2021-09-21T22:47:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T22:47:36","slug":"the-next-175","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/2012\/05\/29\/the-next-175\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next 175"},"content":{"rendered":"

It felt like we were taking it easy.\u00a0 Yes, there were a few hills the first day.\u00a0 But we had so much time to cover not many kilometers (Schaffhausen to Basel in 3 days), that the pace seemed almost leisurely.\u00a0 Especially\u00a0since through this area, the ambience is all lovely farmland, pretty little towns, and the swiftly flowing Rhine.<\/p>\n

Schaffhausen is known for its oriels (bay windows above the ground floor). They were once a status symbol for the rich merchants in this town which was built up simply because shippers needed a place to off-load their goods in order to get around the falls.<\/p>\n

\"Schaffhausen<\/a>

Schaffhausen Oriels<\/p><\/div>\n

Since the bikepath often took us along hiking paths through the woods along the river, we saw a few remains of cement bunkers, left from World War II.\u00a0 Often German territory is directly across the Rhine from Switzerland.<\/p>\n

\"WWII<\/a>

WWII Cement Bunker<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Wild<\/a>

Wild Roadside Poppies<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Male<\/a>

Male Swan by Coot Nest<\/p><\/div>\n

We stopped at Augusta Raurica a partially reconstructed Roman amphitheater, a little east of Basel.\u00a0 For another point of view, search on \u201cAugusta Raurica, Augst, Switzerland\u201d and zoom in on the satellite view.<\/p>\n

\"Augusta<\/a>

Augusta Raurica--How it was, how it is<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It felt like we were taking it easy.\u00a0 Yes, there were a few hills the first day.\u00a0 But we had so much time to cover not many kilometers (Schaffhausen to Basel in 3 days), that the pace seemed almost leisurely.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling","category-germany","category-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}