{"id":200800,"date":"2017-11-29T21:04:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T19:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/christmas-lights-bus\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T18:56:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T16:56:07","slug":"christmas-lights-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/christmas-lights-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas lights by bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday evening after a wonderful Christmas lunch we took the bus down Oxford Street to Marble Arch and back up Regent Street in London to view the Christmas lights. Central London is sparkling.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!\u201d<\/em> Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Photography: Ronel van Zyl<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-200800 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/7-110-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/7-36-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/7-36-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/7-36-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/7-36-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/7-36-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/7-36-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/6-122-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/6-37-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/6-37-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/6-37-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/6-37-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/6-37-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/6-37-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure 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https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2-48-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">About the author<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">Sharing life<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">I am a British South African living in London and sharing my passion for London, Great Britain, my country of birth South Africa, events and my travels. I am a freelance photographer and can always be found with my camera. I believe a photo can tell a story so much better. I love capturing the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">Visit Ronel\u2019s blog at <a href=\"https:\/\/ronelvanzyl.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ronelvanzyl.blogspot.co.uk\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday evening after a wonderful Christmas lunch we took the bus down Oxford Street to Marble Arch and back up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":193318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1114,"label":"Blog"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-55.jpg",640,411,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Ronel van Zyl","author_link":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/author\/ronelvanzyl\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1114,"name":"Blog","slug":"blog-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1114,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1096,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":1114,"category_count":1096,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Blog","category_nicename":"blog-en","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-55.jpg","fimg_url":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-55.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200801,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200800\/revisions\/200801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}