{"id":1252,"date":"2017-06-14T17:33:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T16:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2017-06-14T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T16:33:53","slug":"tourists-for-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1252","title":{"rendered":"Tourists for a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our last full day, and what a belter, with glorious blue skies, and the warmest day yet – warm enough for us to put our shorts on!<\/p>\n

A quick hop across on the ferry to the other side of the harbour, and the star of the show, the SS Great Britain museum. \u00a0The boat was launched in 1843, and returned back to Bristol and the same harbour, after being towed back from the Falkland Islands.<\/p>\n

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View from the stern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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View from the top deck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Next to the bell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The boat is split in two for preservation reasons. The iron hull is contained, as it requires a much drier humidity level to minimise corrosion. \u00a0It does mean you can walk all the way around it.<\/p>\n

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The original iron hull<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A walk across Pero’s bridge, and we left our own padlock. \u00a0It seems a fitting end to the most amazing holiday, to think when we next do a blog update, we’ll be married! \u00a0We wish Peter and Romy safe passage, and hope they have as much fun as we have.<\/p>\n

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Padlock at Pero’s bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Our last full day, and what a belter, with glorious blue skies, and the warmest day yet – warm enough for us to put our shorts on! A quick hop across on the ferry to the other side of the harbour, and the star of the show, the SS Great Britain museum. \u00a0The boat was … Continue reading Tourists for a Day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol-2017"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-kc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}