{"id":18944,"date":"2015-04-28T06:52:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T04:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.china-by-bike.de\/blog\/?p=18944"},"modified":"2015-05-19T06:55:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T04:55:37","slug":"road-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/2015\/04\/road-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandem4family.de\" title=\"tandem4family\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>tandem4family &#8211; Mit der Familienkutsche von Shanghai nach Beijing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After two non-biking days it feels good to be back on the saddle again. It seems I\u2019m becoming a cyclist, after all. We leave the hometown of Confucius quite early and in high spirits, planning on a noodle brunch somewhere on the way. Volker has mapped a route of side-roads that should bring us to Tai\u2019an and the sacred Mt. Tai. On the way out of town a tuk-tuk starts stalking us. The driver follows us closely behind, then overtakes us and slows down in front of us, after we manage to overtake him he speeds again and drives parallel to us. We reach the side road we are supposed to take, and turn. \u201cNo, you can\u2019t go there!\u201d \u2013 shouts the tuk-tuk driver to us in English. \u201cWhere do you go? To Tai\u2019an? \u2013 it is here, here.\u201d And he gesticulates towards the interstate which we are just leaving. \u201cI know,\u201d says Volker \u2013 \u201cbut we want another one!\u201d And on we go, with the tuk-tuk left behind. After a kilometre or two I have a d\u00e9j\u00e0-vu \u2013 the occasional cars or motorbikes coming against us seem strangely familiar, as if I have just seen them, but in the other direction. Soon I know why \u2013 Road works! And not the Jiangsu-type of road works, when the road is already finished, merely with an earthen barrier at the end of the repaired stretch remaining, but a construction in full swing. No way to make it through!<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tandem4family.de\/road-works\/\" title=\"Road Works\" target=\"_blank\">Weiter lesen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tandem4family &#8211; Mit der Familienkutsche von Shanghai nach Beijing After two non-biking days it feels good to be back on the saddle again. It seems I\u2019m becoming a cyclist, after all. We leave the hometown of Confucius quite early and in high spirits, planning on a noodle brunch somewhere on the way. Volker has mapped a route of side-roads that should bring us to Tai\u2019an and the sacred Mt. Tai. On the way out of town a tuk-tuk starts stalking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/2015\/04\/road-works\/\">Weiter lesen!<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSC8098.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18950,"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944\/revisions\/18950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/china-by-bike.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}