{"id":2088,"date":"2019-05-14T17:46:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T16:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2021-06-17T21:41:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T20:41:39","slug":"st-andrews-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/?p=2088","title":{"rendered":"St Andrew&#8217;s Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">One cold but dry day we took the local (free) ferry to one of the islands\u2019 called Red Island.\u00a0 It is made up of two small islands San Andreiji (Saint Andrew\u2019s) and St. Maskin, linked by a concreted rock walkway. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"892\" src=\"http:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC04337-1024x892.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2094\" 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ferry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">In the 6th century, Benedictines built a monastery on the island, leaving in the 13th century and in the 15th century it was taken over by Franciscans who renovated the church and the monastery. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC04305-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC04305-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC04305-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC04305-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Now a restaurant&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 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width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC04340-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2096\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/dsc04340\/\" class=\"wp-image-2096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC04340-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC04340-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC04340.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>External balconies overlooking the bay.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC04336-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2093\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/dsc04336\/\" class=\"wp-image-2093\" 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Nesting seagull bottom left.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"529\" src=\"http:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC04325-1024x529.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2092\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/dsc04325\/\" class=\"wp-image-2092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC04325-1024x529.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC04325-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC04325-768x397.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The hotel&#8217;s bay and walkway to the smaller island.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">In 1809, the island was conquered by France, and in 1892 a cement and lime factory was built on the island using the church tower as a chimney.\u00a0 It is now home to a large 4 start hotel and spa, the church buildings form part of a restaurant and banquet area, and the tower has exterior stairs up to a viewing platform, giving 360* views of the islands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">It is so small, we took under an hour to walk around it\u2019s shoreline, admiring nesting seagulls, the bays, bathing areas and the church buildings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One cold but dry day we took the local (free) ferry to one of the islands\u2019 called Red Island.\u00a0 It is made up of two small islands San Andreiji (Saint Andrew\u2019s) and St. Maskin, linked by a concreted rock walkway. \u00a0\u00a0 In the 6th century, Benedictines built a monastery on the island, leaving in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-general","category-history","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}