{"id":4327,"date":"2026-08-19T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:01:33","slug":"dolomites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/?p=4327","title":{"rendered":"Dolomites.day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a motorised trip so look away if you are scandalised. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jim , Noel and I are on a guided tour with overlanders.ie . don and Davy were also to come but events conspired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few other riders here mostly Irish but one American and a few ladies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2:30 am start , dublin airport, Ryan air to memingham Germany. Fairly seamless till we hit passport control then it all stopped. Took an hour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walked over to collect bikes. Jim was hiring and Walter \u2026 his man proved elusive but eventually showed. Jim not too pleased with bike , a gs 1250. Seen better days apparently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ciar\u00e1n\u2019s our leader and did a briefing and then off we headed for Kaunertal Austria. Beautiful roads and awesome cols. stopped for lunch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hotel lovely , had a dip but not a naked sauna.  \ud83e\udd2a. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stelvio tomorrow \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"4359\" src=\"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_2343-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_2343-1-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_2343-1-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Butlers \u2026 compulsory. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"4360\" src=\"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_2349-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_2349-1-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_2349-1-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption wp-element-caption\">The elusive Walter with Jim.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex 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Jim , Noel and I are on a guided tour with overlanders.ie . don and Davy were also to come but events conspired. A few other riders here mostly Irish but one American and a few ladies. 2:30 am start , dublin airport, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4327"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4389,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions\/4389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}