{"id":1455,"date":"2017-07-04T18:58:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T17:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2017-07-04T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T17:58:15","slug":"abingdon-by-boat-and-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon by boat and boot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our first and only lock today was Culham Lock and the keeper arrived just as we were getting ready to operate it ourselves which made it nice and easy.\u00a0 A few more red kites and herons but little else moving on the river.\u00a0 This gave us lots of time to set up selfies!<\/p>\n

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Hand in glove<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had decided to get a pump out at Abingdon and used the Abingdon Boat Centre just before the bridge.\u00a0 Very nice thorough and pleasant service if a trifle expensive at \u00a319.\u00a0 It\u2019s a good job we did not need diesel as their price averaged out at \u00a31.15.\u00a0 We topped up the water while waiting.<\/p>\n

Although there are lots of moorings in Abingdon there were not all that many vacant spaces but we found a most acceptable spot on the right bank as we look at it.<\/p>\n

We wandered into town for lunch and had a decent meal at The Broad Face before a walking tour of the locale.\u00a0 Part of our walk took us along the side of the river opposite Oliver and gave us an opportunity for a picture we are rarely able to get.\u00a0 On the way back we returned over the weir and lock.<\/p>\n

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Oliver in his element<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A closer look<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Weir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A great place for a spot of fishing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had a good chat with the lock keepers who take a pride in the appearance of their lock and seem to get lots of fun enhancing the garden with interesting carvings.\u00a0 They have obviously had trouble with some boaters lacking understanding of rudimentary navigation.<\/p>\n

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Wood you believe it?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A hint for non navigators?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our first and only lock today was Culham Lock and the keeper arrived just as we were getting ready to operate it ourselves which made it nice and easy.\u00a0 A few more red kites and herons but little else moving on the river.\u00a0 This gave us lots of time to set up selfies! We had … Continue reading Abingdon by boat and boot<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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-1455","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-nt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}