{"id":1309,"date":"2012-05-05T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T10:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2012-05-05T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T13:22:48","slug":"loch-ruthven-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/05\/loch-ruthven-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Loch Ruthven cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-right\" width=\"350\">\n<p>Meant to add this pic of Loch Ruthven to previous tweet&#8230; Stunning evening, and only got caught in one snow shower! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/YFRoelXx\" title=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BL6John\/status\/198491818529259522\/photo\/1\">twitter.com\/BL6John\/status\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Davidson (@BL6John) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BL6John\/status\/198491818529259522\" data-datetime=\"2012-05-04T19:18:32+00:00\">May 4, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I managed to sneak in a nice bike ride last night, which reminded me (again) just what a fantastic part of the world I live in. Within 25 minutes of leaving home I was approaching Dores looking down over the length of Loch Ness on a beautiful clear evening.<\/p>\n<p>People travel here from all across the world to see this sight, and it&#8217;s well worth it, but it&#8217;s right here on our doorstep!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIt looks like work has started on the Inverness-Dores cycle route that will make up part of NCN R78, as well.<\/p>\n<p>From Dores I headed up the steep hill on the B862 then headed left towards the Loch Ruthven Nature Reserve, across the causeway across Loch Duntelchaig. I was following the Cycle 10 out of my book, one of my favourite local rides and perfect for a summer evening (although it&#8217;s only spring and it did manage to snow last night while I was out!).<\/p>\n<p>Loch Ruthven is beautiful and the roads here are very quiet. There were new lambs and calves everywhere and I saw lots of roe deer too.<\/p>\n<p>I headed back to Inverness via Dunlichity then over Bunachton and down to Essich &#8211; getting caught in the snow on the way.<\/p>\n<p>A fine way to spend a Friday evening!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meant to add this pic of Loch Ruthven to previous tweet&#8230; Stunning evening, and only got caught in one snow shower! twitter.com\/BL6John\/status\u2026 \u2014 John Davidson (@BL6John) May 4, 2012 I managed to sneak in a nice bike ride last night, which reminded me (again) just what a fantastic part of the world I live in. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5M0xs-l7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}