{"id":16317,"date":"2014-12-15T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16317"},"modified":"2014-12-15T13:06:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T12:06:17","slug":"the-dane-who-wants-to-visit-every-country-in-the-world-without-flying-and-without-frills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16317","title":{"rendered":"The Dane who wants to visit every country in the world &#8211; without flying and without frills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love travel to new countries, but 35-year-old\u00a0Danish\u00a0Torbj\u00f8rn Pedersen has taken global travelling to a whole new level.<\/p>\n<p>He wants to visit every nation on earth &#8211; 193 member states of the United Nations or 203 countries including additional territories. He plans to do all this travelling without taking an aircraft and on a mere \u00a312 a day. He reckons it will take at least four years.<\/p>\n<p>So far, he has been to 68 countries. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/countries.html\">I have been to 66<\/a> &#8211; but it has taken me 66 years, I have taken lots of flights, and it has cost been a great more than \u00a312 a day. On the other hand, there is something to be said for taking time to explore the world.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about the quest of\u00a0Torbj\u00f8rn Pedersen\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/2014\/dec\/14\/wanderlust-viking-cheap-travel-aeroplane-free-visit-every-country\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love travel to new countries, but 35-year-old\u00a0Danish\u00a0Torbj\u00f8rn Pedersen has taken global travelling to a whole new level. He wants to visit every nation on earth &#8211; 193 member states of the United Nations or 203 countries including additional territories. He plans to do all this travelling without taking an aircraft and on a mere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16317"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16324,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16317\/revisions\/16324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}