{"id":16321,"date":"2022-08-14T17:09:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T16:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/?p=16321"},"modified":"2022-08-14T18:22:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T17:22:55","slug":"back-in-staffordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/index.php\/2022\/08\/14\/back-in-staffordshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Staffordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Brought my father back to the UK after a week spent with us in Belgium. We went back up to Staffordshire in the midlands to visit my elder brother and his family before returning to Eastbourne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-attachment-id=\"16322\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/index.php\/2022\/08\/14\/back-in-staffordshire\/img_0831\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0831.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11 Pro&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1660467406&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0071428571428571&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_0831\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0831-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0831.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0831.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0831.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0831.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0831.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0831.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Walking my brother\u2019s dogs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The driving was painfully slow going up to James and coming back down to Eastbourne. Just too much traffic in the UK <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-attachment-id=\"16323\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/index.php\/2022\/08\/14\/back-in-staffordshire\/img_0834\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0834.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11 Pro&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1660471995&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00035498757543486&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_0834\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0834-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0834.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0834.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0834.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0834.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0834.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0834.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Adbaston church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway we went to put some flowers on my mother\u2019s grave which was emotional for my father but did him good to see it again <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" data-attachment-id=\"16324\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/index.php\/2022\/08\/14\/back-in-staffordshire\/img_0837\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0837.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11 Pro&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1660472149&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0081967213114754&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_0837\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0837-1024x786.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0837.jpg?resize=1024%2C786&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0837.jpg?resize=1024%2C786&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0837.jpg?resize=300%2C230&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0837.jpg?resize=768%2C590&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0837.jpg?resize=1536%2C1180&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0837.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brought my father back to the UK after a week spent with us in Belgium. We went back up to Staffordshire in the midlands to visit my elder brother and his family before returning to Eastbourne The driving was painfully slow going up to James and coming back down to Eastbourne. Just too much traffic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90],"tags":[54,51],"class_list":["post-16321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-holiday","tag-home","category-90","description-off"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_0835.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15408,"url":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/index.php\/2022\/05\/09\/over-the-snowbound-santiam-pass\/","url_meta":{"origin":16321,"position":0},"title":"Over the snowbound Santiam Pass","author":"Piers","date":"2022-05-09","format":false,"excerpt":"After meeting up with Rich who was also being hosted on WS by Jim and Jill it was obvious that we were not going to be able to ride the pass so we needed a ride. 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