{"id":2,"date":"2014-01-08T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2014-01-31T21:04:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T21:04:55","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore Europe on a Motorbike: Four Months and 26,000 km<p>by Siegfried Engels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2014\/01\/978-1-62516-345-5-SEngelsCover.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-7\" alt=\"978-1-62516-345-5-SEngelsCover\" src=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2014\/01\/978-1-62516-345-5-SEngelsCover.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2014\/01\/978-1-62516-345-5-SEngelsCover.jpg 576w, https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2014\/01\/978-1-62516-345-5-SEngelsCover-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a>About the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vroom! Vroom! If you\u2019ve ever felt the power of a motorbike and the lure of the open road, you will understand the desire that Namibian Siegfried Engels felt as he planned the ultimate tour of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Just before retirement as an agricultural engineer, the idea to travel Europe popped into the author\u2019s mind. \u201cThe more I thought about it, the bigger the plan grew and in more detail. One month after retirement, I was in London, looking around.\u201d Within a week he left for France without any bookings in advance except the necessary visas. \u201cMy idea of exploring a country consists more of doing the countryside than cities and such. It is also about riding a motorbike and drinking in as much as the freedom allows you. The idea originally was also to use hostels for accommodations, but this backfired. You don\u2019t find hostels in the countryside! This is why I camped in a small tent most of the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After France, he rode the Mediterranean Coast from Marseilles to Monaco, and then took on the French Alps to Switzerland. \u201cIt was over the Alps and through the tunnels to Italy, mostly the northern part with all the lakes. My route took me through Milan and Venice to the border of Croatia, and then through Eastern Europe.\u201d And it only took him <em>Four Months and 26,000 km<\/em>! <a href=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2014\/01\/Engels-Siegfried-Explore-Europe-on-a-Motorbike-PR-Final.pdf\">View the Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2014\/01\/Siegfried-Engels.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6\" alt=\"Siegfried Engels\" src=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2014\/01\/Siegfried-Engels.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a>\u201cNamibia is the country where I was born and bred,\u201d says author <strong>Siegfried Engels<\/strong>. \u201cOur family originated from Germany in the 1800s, emigrated to South Africa, and from there to Namibia in 1928, and have been here since then.\u201d His next motorbike adventures are already planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Book Vroom! Vroom! If you\u2019ve ever felt the power of a motorbike and the lure of the open road, you will understand the desire that Namibian Siegfried Engels felt as he planned the ultimate tour of Europe. Just before retirement as an agricultural engineer, the idea to travel Europe popped into the author\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/siegfriedengels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}