{"id":311,"date":"2016-04-20T07:16:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T21:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/?p=311"},"modified":"2016-04-20T07:45:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T21:45:07","slug":"18-april-2016-shrewsbury-to-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/2016\/04\/20\/18-april-2016-shrewsbury-to-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"18 April 2016; Shrewsbury to Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our short stay in Shrewsbury turned out to be an unexpected gem. I had imagined it to be a bump in the transit from Oxford to Dublin, but it turned out to be so much more. The town itself is very pretty, with splashes of colour courtesy of the local Horticultural Society. There is plenty of medieval stone, Tudor facades and Georgian architecture interspersed with green areas and open parklands. There was a complete lack of tourists and the crush of crowds pressing upon you as you might take in a pleasant vista or attempt to frame a particlar camera image.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_306\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-306\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-306\" src=\"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Vanessa-and-Ian-Shrewsbury.jpg\" alt=\"Vanessa and Ian, Shrewsbury\" width=\"518\" height=\"345\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa and Ian, Shrewsbury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, it was the warmth and generosity of our hosts that turned Shrewsbury into the best stay on our trip so far. Ian and Vanessa welcomed us like relatives rather than paying guests and last night&#8217;s dinner was by far the best meal we&#8217;ve had. But, all good things must come to an end and so it was that we had to say goodbye and move onto Holyhead by train to take the ferry to Dublin. Ian saved us the hard slog of dragging our bags on the reverse trip to the station by driving us there and our departure was an emotional hug rather than a warm handshake.<\/p>\n<p>The train trip to Holyhead passed through Wales arriving in the early afternoon. We boarded our ferry, The Stena Adventurer, for the three hour transit to Dublin and enjoyed a transit across a mill pond rather than what I imagined would be present on the Irish Sea. You could have skied across the water it was so placid.<\/p>\n<p>We took a bus into the city centre and walked to our accomodation &#8211; tired but excited about continuing our adventures into Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our short stay in Shrewsbury turned out to be an unexpected gem. I had imagined it to be a bump in the transit from Oxford to Dublin, but it turned out to be so much more. The town itself is very pretty, with splashes of colour courtesy of the local Horticultural Society. There is plenty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/2016\/04\/20\/18-april-2016-shrewsbury-to-dublin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;18 April 2016; Shrewsbury to Dublin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris-and-gregs-holiday"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}