{"id":3244,"date":"2017-07-12T16:04:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T16:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2017-07-16T08:35:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T08:35:17","slug":"11th-july-rochefort-to-calais-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/?p=3244","title":{"rendered":"11th July &#8211; Rochefort to Calais (France)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 Day until we arrive in Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>Today we leave Rochefort together with Shamrock with the intention of driving as many of the 310 km&#8217;s off the autobahn&#8217;s and on the country roads.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lovely drive through small villages, over canals as we wind our way from Belgium to France and back to Belgium, then finally into France.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3376\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/?attachment_id=3376\" 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