{"id":687991,"date":"2025-04-01T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=687991"},"modified":"2025-04-07T12:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:13:27","slug":"the-way-to-byzantium-backpacking-love-and-adventure-through-late-1960s-europe-by-pje-bailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/the-way-to-byzantium-backpacking-love-and-adventure-through-late-1960s-europe-by-pje-bailey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way to Byzantium: Backpacking, Love and Adventure through late 1960s Europe by PJE Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Way to Byzantium: Backpacking, Love and Adventure through late 1960s Europe by PJE Bailey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the end of the Swinging Sixties, and four Higher Education graduates embark on a gap year world tour. Eager to experience foreign countries before settling into employment, they choose hitchhiking and local public transport to immerse themselves among the real people.<\/p>\n<p>Their journey across Europe is packed with challenges\u2014from encounters with the friendly and hostile locals to run-ins with Swiss and Italian police. As they navigate through historic cities, from Naples to Rome, each moment brings them closer to understanding the complexities of love and life in a changing world.<\/p>\n<p>The expedition, seemingly well-planned, takes a thrilling turn after a bumpy ride across Europe. When they reach Istanbul, one member decides to stay behind, only to face hard lessons about life, love, work, and the real world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Way to Byzantium: Backpacking, Love and Adventure through late 1960s Europe by PJE Bailey It\u2019s the end of the Swinging Sixties, and four Higher Education graduates embark on a gap year world tour. Eager to experience foreign countries before settling into employment, they choose hitchhiking and local public transport to immerse themselves among the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":687992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687993,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687991\/revisions\/687993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}