{"id":12511,"date":"2013-08-29T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/travellers-pause-to-remember-bill-peach\/"},"modified":"2013-09-17T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T14:19:20","slug":"travellers-pause-to-remember-bill-peach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/08\/travellers-pause-to-remember-bill-peach\/","title":{"rendered":"Travellers Pause to Remember Bill Peach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-z0YMrOklDHE\/Uh77mhUJS5I\/AAAAAAAAhzI\/zoyjhbc2t70\/s1600\/BP-toast-798351.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-z0YMrOklDHE\/Uh77mhUJS5I\/AAAAAAAAhzI\/zoyjhbc2t70\/s320\/BP-toast-798351.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>by Roderick EIme (travelling with Bill Peach Journeys)<\/p>\n<p>Guests on Bill Peach Journeys Classic  Australia Aircruise woke to the news that the company&#8217;s namesake had  passed away overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Against a glorious Cable Beach sunset,  the group recalled the great man who inspired millions of Australians  to get out and see their country with his ground-breaking series of  television programs including the iconic &#8216;Peach&#8217;s Australia&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Tour director, Lesley Neil, an employee  of the company for the last three years shared her memories of  working with Bill when she was a young school-leaver in the mid-60s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was working as a young PA at the  BBC representative office in Elizabeth Street where Bill worked as  the television rep,&#8221; recalls Lesley, &#8220;He was such a kind and  gentle man, even a little shy, with a distinctive lock of auburn  hair. He had such a lovely manner and very easy to talk to. He was  just a natural for the job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bill Peach Journeys was established by  Bill in 1983 and began with a F27 Fokker Friendship flying guests  around Australia. The company that still bears his name now takes  people to iconic places all around the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billpeachjourneys.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Www.billpeachjourneys.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Roderick EIme (travelling with Bill Peach Journeys) Guests on Bill Peach Journeys Classic Australia Aircruise woke to the news that the company&#8217;s namesake had passed away overnight. Against a glorious Cable Beach sunset, the group recalled the great man who inspired millions of Australians to get out and see their country with his ground-breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,1],"tags":[378],"class_list":["post-12511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roderick-eime","category-uncategorized","tag-roderick-eime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15600,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511\/revisions\/15600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}