{"id":2048,"date":"2012-06-13T17:30:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T16:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2012-06-17T21:31:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T20:31:34","slug":"la-rochelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/13\/la-rochelle\/","title":{"rendered":"La Rochelle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we went to La Rochelle, our nearest large town,immortalised by the French books I learnt from at school. Luckily Fiona had a map:<\/p>\n

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So we all followed her to the yarn shop \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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We managed to find three yarn shops selling a variety of French and foreign yarns. <\/p>\n

We also managed to fit in a bit of sight-seeing. It is an interesting old town, beautiful on such a lovely day. There were quite a lot of people around, some locals but quite a lot of tourists, particularly English. Here is the harbour:<\/p>\n

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And there were several interesting buildings. The lines on this aren’t timber but are actually slate tiles, which seems to be a local style.<\/p>\n

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Here we all are at the harbour side, looking very pleased with all our new purchases.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of purchases, I bought two balls of Bergere de France Sport, which is a DK weight washable wool and acrylic mix. I am planning a hat for my niece for her Christmas present (or possibly her birthday in September if I am fast enough!) I hope she will like the colour.<\/p>\n

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In the Phildar shop I bought four balls of Terre Neuve, which is a chunky wool, and will be a hat for me. I think the colour is fantastic!<\/p>\n

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The third knitting shop sold Pinguoin and Anny Blatt yarns but I didn’t buy anything there. I was saving my cash for a very nice creme br\u00fbl\u00e9e ice cream, no photo I’m afraid, I ate it too quickly \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we went to La Rochelle, our nearest large town,immortalised by the French books I learnt from at school. Luckily Fiona had a map: So we all followed her to the yarn shop \ud83d\ude42 We managed to find three yarn shops selling a variety of French and foreign yarns. We also managed to fit in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,6,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french-treats","category-stash","category-waffle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-x2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}