{"id":153,"date":"2015-06-01T20:33:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T20:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=153"},"modified":"2015-06-24T20:42:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T20:42:40","slug":"two-go-tunneling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Two Go Tunneling"},"content":{"rendered":"

1st June 2015<\/p>\n

Our overnight mooring at\u00a0Etruria was at the summit of the Trent and Mersey Canal.<\/p>\n

We set off at the early time of 7:50 hoping to get into a good position for the second run through the Harecastle Tunnel. \u00a0\u00a0This worked pretty well as we were second in the queue. \u00a0Unfortunately the down coming boats were a bit slow and we had a wait of an hour and twenty minutes. \u00a0We followed someone who had been through a few times before and managed the entire tunnel in 35 minutes without touching the walls once. \u00a0We did however have a little bump at the very end where the exit requires a sharp turn made a bit more difficult by a work boat on the left!<\/p>\n

We noticed\u00a0a significant change in the colour of the water which turns a deep brown as soon as the tunnel exit is reached.<\/p>\n

We dropped down the next six locks and moored at the visitor moorings just past bridge 135. \u00a0This left us with a short walk back to Red Bull where we had arranged to meet Sarah. \u00a0That turned out to be an excellent arrangement . \u00a0Not only did we meet Sarah and collect our goodies, \u00a0including beautifully manufactured bum protectors, but we avoided travelling in some pretty atrocious weather and moored on some good solid rings. \u00a0This was really appreciated when we saw warnings of winds overnight reaching 51 mph. \u00a0With similar weather predicted for tomorrow we walked up and sussed out the moorings at Rode Heath. \u00a0Finding it crowded\u00a0with most boats relying on stakes we decided to stay where we are for an extra day.<\/p>\n

The tunnel entrance<\/p>\n

\"HFM-Llangollen-12\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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After exiting the tunnel the water becomes a deep brown colour<\/p>\n

\"HFM-Llangollen-13\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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1st June 2015 Our overnight mooring at\u00a0Etruria was at the summit of the Trent and Mersey Canal. We set off at the early time of 7:50 hoping to get into a good position for the second run through the Harecastle Tunnel. \u00a0\u00a0This worked pretty well as we were second in the queue. \u00a0Unfortunately the down … Continue reading Two Go Tunneling<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-llangollen2015","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-2t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","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=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}