{"id":381,"date":"2016-04-26T08:07:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T22:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/?p=381"},"modified":"2016-04-26T08:14:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T22:14:51","slug":"24-april-2016-kilkenny-to-waterford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/2016\/04\/26\/24-april-2016-kilkenny-to-waterford\/","title":{"rendered":"24 April 2016; Kilkenny to Waterford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We visited Mount Congreve Gardens during our transit from Kilkenny to Waterford. The gardens would only be open for this one day while we were nearby in Waterford so it would be today or never. The gardens consist of around seventy acres of intensively planted woodland and a four acre walled garden. The entire collection consists of over three thousand different trees and shrubs, more than two thousand Rhododendrons, six hundred Camellias, three hundred Acer cultivars, six hundred conifers, two hundred and fifty climbers and fifteen hundred herbaceous plants.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_375\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-375\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-375\" src=\"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Mount-Congreve-Gardens-ii-Waterford.jpg\" alt=\"Mount Congreve Gardens (i), Waterford\" width=\"518\" height=\"345\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Congreve Gardens (i), Waterford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-374\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-374\" src=\"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Mount-Congreve-Gardens-i-Waterford.jpg\" alt=\"Mount Congreve Gardens (ii), Waterford\" width=\"518\" height=\"345\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Congreve Gardens (ii), Waterford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unfortunatley I was succumbing to my usual round of mid-trip sickness and was not feeling particularly like walking among the spring blossoms.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_376\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-376\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-376\" src=\"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Mount-Congreve-Gardens-iii-Waterford.jpg\" alt=\"Mount Congreve Gardens (iii), Waterford\" width=\"518\" height=\"345\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Congreve Gardens (iii), Waterford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When we arrived in Waterford I rested on the bed while Chris explored the town and went in search of a chemist. She returned several hours later with happy snaps of the water front and some medicine for me.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-377\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-377\" src=\"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/River-Suir-Waterford.jpg\" alt=\"River Suir, Waterford\" width=\"518\" height=\"345\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">River Suir, Waterford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We visited Mount Congreve Gardens during our transit from Kilkenny to Waterford. The gardens would only be open for this one day while we were nearby in Waterford so it would be today or never. The gardens consist of around seventy acres of intensively planted woodland and a four acre walled garden. The entire collection &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/2016\/04\/26\/24-april-2016-kilkenny-to-waterford\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;24 April 2016; Kilkenny to Waterford&#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-381","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\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}