{"id":2876,"date":"2019-06-21T21:42:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T20:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2019-06-21T21:50:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T20:50:06","slug":"day-40-the-longest-day-the-shortest-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=2876","title":{"rendered":"Day 41 &#8211; The Longest Day &#8211; The Shortest Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is the longest day with 16 hours and 38 minutes of daylight but it is our shortest journey  covering a mere 5 miles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We left our extremely pleasant and tranquil overnight mooring at around 9 am and headed at a very leisurely pace towards Lancaster.&nbsp; It was again a beautiful bright morning but very chilly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We only encountered three boats on the journey which  lasted for  only 1 hour and 45 minutes but was sufficient to get the batteries up to 99%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just before we set off from the mooring we were surprised to see a boat passing us with the driver standing on the seat, peering over the pram hood and steering through the bridge using his foot on the tiller.&nbsp; It\u2019s a shame we were too late to get a picture!<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"901\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2873\" data-link=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?attachment_id=2873\" class=\"wp-image-2873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-1-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"901\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2874\" data-link=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?attachment_id=2874\" class=\"wp-image-2874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-2-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The journey was nicely varied with some open countryside and some quite deep  cuttings with overhanging trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"901\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2872\" data-link=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?attachment_id=2872\" class=\"wp-image-2872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-3-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"901\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2871\" data-link=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?attachment_id=2871\" class=\"wp-image-2871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-4.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-4-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had decided that Lancaster Castle would be our first tourist attraction but we did stop on route for coffee and cake at the Print Room and very good it was too.&nbsp; The Castle can only be visited as part of a guided tour.&nbsp; This proved to be very interesting and entertaining with James being a very engaging guide.&nbsp; It was a shame that much of the castle was closed to visitors and photography was prohibited.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"901\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-5.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-5-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We then caught a bus and visited Williamson Park as Romy was determined to visit the Butterfly House.&nbsp; A wedding with two brides was taking place at Ashton Memorial so we could only see this from the outside at first but we were able to enter the tower after loosing about three pound each (just sweat) in the butterfly house where we saw some lovely specimens.  The view from the tower was quite stunning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"901\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2869\" data-link=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?attachment_id=2869\" class=\"wp-image-2869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-6.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-6-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"901\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2863\" data-link=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?attachment_id=2863\" class=\"wp-image-2863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-12.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-12-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-12-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few shots from the Butterfly House<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"901\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2868\" data-link=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?attachment_id=2868\" class=\"wp-image-2868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-7.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-7-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"901\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2867\" data-link=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?attachment_id=2867\" class=\"wp-image-2867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-8.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-8-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"901\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2866\" data-link=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?attachment_id=2866\" class=\"wp-image-2866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-9.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-9-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-9-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One even sat on Romy&#8217;s hand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"901\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2865\" data-link=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?attachment_id=2865\" class=\"wp-image-2865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-11.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-11-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"901\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2864\" data-link=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?attachment_id=2864\" class=\"wp-image-2864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-10.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-10-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-10-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another bus journey took us back to the town centre where did a bit of shopping at M&amp;S before heading back to Oliver. On route we booked a table at the Water Witch for our evening meal.&nbsp; This turned out to be excellent and very good value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the longest day with 16 hours and 38 minutes of daylight but it is our shortest journey covering a mere 5 miles We left our extremely pleasant and tranquil overnight mooring at around 9 am and headed at a very leisurely pace towards Lancaster.&nbsp; It was again a beautiful bright morning but very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=2876\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 41 &#8211; The Longest Day &#8211; The Shortest Journey<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-grand-tour","tag-lancaster-canal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Lancaster-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-Ko","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","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=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2884,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions\/2884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}