{"id":354,"date":"2015-06-25T18:50:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=354"},"modified":"2015-06-26T17:00:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T17:00:57","slug":"on-to-the-river-severn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"On to the river Severn"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"We<\/a>
We made an early start out from Stourport basin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had to navigate a pair of staircase locks – the pound between them was pretty small and they were at an awkward angle making the turn really tricky. Luckily nobody was watching as I made a hash of it on the first attempt, but we soon sorted it out and were on our way on the Severn…<\/p>\n

\"There<\/a>
There is nothing–absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before long we hit our first lock on the Severn. We were well impressed as the gates were open before we arrived – turns out the lock-keeper has a webcam so he could see us coming!<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The locks on the Severn are a bit bigger than the canal ones.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Severn locks have steel cables running vertically up the sides for tying up to<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As well as the steel cables, we also liked how calmly the locks filled compared to the Thames – you could literally hold the boat in with finger and thumb. All in all the locks were a dream.<\/p>\n

\"We<\/a>
We passed some lovely houses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"and<\/a>
and went under some more great Telford bridges<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

before we knew it we were in Worcester<\/p>\n

\"Worcester<\/a>
Worcester Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Worcester<\/a>
Worcester Cathedral’s West window<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sarah also couldn’t resist taking a shot of this old postbox<\/p>\n

\"Victorian<\/a>
Victorian postbox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had to navigate a pair of staircase locks – the pound between them was pretty small and they were at an awkward angle making the turn really tricky. Luckily nobody was watching as I made a hash of it on the first attempt, but we soon sorted it out and were on our way … Continue reading On to the river Severn<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[12,11],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-llangollen2015","tag-severn","tag-worcester","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-5I","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}