{"id":398,"date":"2010-05-02T18:33:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T18:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2010-05-02T18:33:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T18:33:44","slug":"hanley-all-the-way-to-milton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Hanley all the way to Milton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Sunday 2nd May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">We have come another HUGE distance today &#8211; all of 3 miles! The thing is, we only wanted to move from the building site area into the country really, so we just went as far as was necessary. It has been really cold and windy today too so we didn&#8217;t want to go too far. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The first obstacle\u00a0to be overcome was\u00a0an electric lift bridge. As we had been moored near it last night and watched a couple of people struggling with\u00a0the barriers to close the road\u00a0we knew exactly what to do this morning, so that was a bonus to having stayed there. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The next thing was that this canal is so twisty and\u00a0narrow too, in places there\u00a0are only a few inches to spare either side of the boat, literally. Good job it&#8217;s not very busy at the moment, so we haven&#8217;t met anything coming the other way at an inopportune moment, or at all actually. God knows what it&#8217;s like when it is busy! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">On top of this, some of the bridges are\u00a0really low too.\u00a0\u00a0We had already bent the hat on our chimney\u00a0yesterday going under a low bridge and had to take it off!\u00a0Good job\u00a0we\u00a0did as there was about 2 inches clearance for our top box, which isn&#8217;t as high\u00a0as the chimney with the hat on,\u00a0under one particular bridge, so the chimney hat would have definitely\u00a0gone for a burton!\u00a0You have to keep your wits about you travelling on here I can tell you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">We moored up in the village of Milton, just to take George to the pub of course! The Millrace is a nice, friendly\u00a0pub with very good meat and potato pies (yes we had to succumb) and gravy, which George enjoyed very much. Then we moved just out of the village for the night. It&#8217;s nice to\u00a0look out of the window and\u00a0see some trees again, after our urban mooring of last night. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Stocton Brook beckons for tomorrow. This is only about a mile and a half from here but there are 5 locks to do! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 2nd May. We have come another HUGE distance today &#8211; all of 3 miles! The thing is, we only wanted to move from the building site area into the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=398'>Read the Post<span class='screen-reader-text'>Hanley all the way to Milton<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","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\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}