{"id":329245,"date":"2025-08-09T00:46:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329245\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:46:20","slug":"portishead-couple-trade-house-for-yacht-in-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329245\/","title":{"rendered":"Portishead couple trade house for yacht in retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The couple have been to the Isle of Man and are currently in the Scottish islands. They plan to sail to Scandinavia and want to cross the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Webb said long-distance sailing was &#8220;safer than driving a car every day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When you&#8217;re sailing, you need to think and you need to plan, and it helps keep us mentally alive,&#8221; said Mr Webb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lot of people can&#8217;t imagine how the two of us, aged 70 and 65, can handle the boat by ourselves, and we do have an argument once a day on average, but I&#8217;m extremely lucky to find somebody who loves sailing so much,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The couple said they are loving life and have no plans to return to Portishead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The couple have been to the Isle of Man and are currently in the Scottish islands. They plan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-329245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114996050924328043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}