{"id":1716,"date":"2015-08-21T21:13:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T20:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radonic.net\/wblog\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2019-08-24T12:49:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T11:49:29","slug":"my-next-job-tour-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"My next job &#8211; Tour guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1694\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/malta-flag_small.gif\" alt=\"Malta_flag\" width=\"36\" height=\"24\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>The tag line will be: &#8220;We&#8217;ll get you there &#8211; no matter what&#8221;.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>One day after work in Malta I decided to go to St. Julian&#8217;s but couldn&#8217;t bother checking which bus to take, where from etc. Instead, I decided to take a walk even though it was extremely hot and humid outside.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1717\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_0.jpg\" alt=\"Route_0\" width=\"859\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_0.jpg 859w, https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_0-700x435.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_0-179x112.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 859px) 100vw, 859px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Walking along the coast would take forever, so a quick look at the map suggested the most direct route.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1724 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_2.jpg\" alt=\"Simple walking route\" width=\"860\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_2.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_2-700x462.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_2-169x112.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Uphill, then a bit to the right and a sharp left. Total of cca 1km.<\/p>\n<p>How hard can it be?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look<\/p>\n<p><!--:--><!--:hr--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1694\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/malta-flag_small.gif\" alt=\"Malta_flag\" width=\"36\" height=\"24\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--:--><!--more--><!--:en--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"margin-right: 0.5%; alignleft wp-image-1724 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_2-90x90.jpg\" alt=\"Simple walking route\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_2-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_2-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"margin-right: 0.5%; alignleft wp-image-1723 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_3-90x90.jpg\" alt=\"Green line represents my real movement\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_3-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_3-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1722 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_4-90x90.jpg\" alt=\"At this point however, I had a feeling I should have taken left turn at the beginning (yellow line) and should therefore correct the route\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_4-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_4-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1721 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_5-90x90.jpg\" alt=\"So, I corrected the sh#t out of it\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_5-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_5-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_6-90x90.jpg\" alt=\"I kept pushing although it didn't feel quite right      (In my defense, by this time I was practically delirious thanks to the uphill walk in a temperature of gazillion degrees)\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_6-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_6-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1719\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_7-90x90.jpg\" alt=\"And...kept pushing until I ended up in a dead end street with nothing but highway in front of me.\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_7-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_7-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1718\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_8-90x90.jpg\" alt=\"Exhausted and pissed off, I decided to go back but walk downhill only no matter what, assuming it will take me back to where I started. Orange line and dot represent where I expected to be while green line and the dot show where I actually was.\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_8-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_8-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1726\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_9-90x90.jpg\" alt=\"Imagine my surprise realizing that by trying to get back to where I started, I actually ended where I was going to in the first place.  Ignoring a tiny detour I took, it went rather smoothly :)\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_9-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Route_9-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\">Yes, I know.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an idiot.<!--:--><!--:hr--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tag line will be: &#8220;We&#8217;ll get you there &#8211; no matter what&#8221;. One day after work in Malta I decided to go to St. Julian&#8217;s but couldn&#8217;t bother checking which bus to take, where from etc. Instead, I decided to take a walk even though it was extremely hot and humid outside. Walking along <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/?p=1716\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta","category-ramblings","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noradic.com\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}