{"id":194,"date":"2009-10-10T19:10:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T19:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2009-10-10T19:10:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T19:10:58","slug":"oxford-canal-rugby-to-braunston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Canal &#8211; Rugby to Braunston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Here we are at Braunston, about 7 1\/2 miles from Hillmorton\u00a0which is\u00a0on the outskirts of\u00a0Rugby. Hillmorton Locks are doubles, ie\u00a02 single locks side by side. This\u00a0was presumably to speed things up when the canals were used for freight and prevent boat jams! We spent some time showing some Viking Afloat hirers how to use the lock as we went through (I don&#8217;t think they get a lot of instruction when they pick up boats for holidays). Then we were off to Braunston, where we left the Oxford Canal and turned on to The Grand Union Canal (main line). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">As it is usually very busy here, especially at the weekend, we leapt into the first mooring we saw. Much to George&#8217;s disgust\u00a0this was MILES from the pub and the trip there included a high bridge with steps like a ladder at both ends! We did, in fact, have some difficulty getting him there! We subsequently moved nearer to the pub,\u00a0in preparation for getting him there tomorrow, having decided to stay here until Monday. But then Ken\u00a0\u00a0received news that his Uncle has died, so we\u00a0are going\u00a0to get back to Thurmaston asap\u00a0because he will need\u00a0go to London for the funeral, which will probably be towards the end of next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">On a lighter note, during this evening&#8217;s fishing session,\u00a0when Ken got his line in a tangle,\u00a0he decided he was in\u00a0a &#8216;Braunston Pickle&#8217; (groan!).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">So tomorrow we will travel through Braunston Tunnel (2042yds) and on to Norton Junction\u00a0where we join\u00a0The Grand Union Canal (Leicester Section). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Cheers B.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are at Braunston, about 7 1\/2 miles from Hillmorton\u00a0which is\u00a0on the outskirts of\u00a0Rugby. Hillmorton Locks are doubles, ie\u00a02 single locks side by side. This\u00a0was presumably to speed things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=194'>Read the Post<span class='screen-reader-text'>Oxford Canal &#8211; Rugby to Braunston<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}