{"id":22635,"date":"2019-05-26T23:35:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T22:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22635"},"modified":"2019-05-26T23:35:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T22:35:17","slug":"bank-holiday-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22635","title":{"rendered":"Bank Holiday Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19052602.jpg\" alt=\"Bank Holiday Weekend\" \/><br \/>\nIt is the late May Bank Holiday Weekend and the Salter Steamer river services between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salterssteamers.co.uk\/oxford-abingdon.php\">Abingdon and Oxford<\/a> have started again.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19052603.jpg\" alt=\"Bank Holiday Weekend\" \/><br \/>\nAt Abingdon Lock, River Banksy has created a couple of new sculptures for the new boating season.<\/p>\n<p>The Open Air pool has opened. There were some bands playing at the Crown and Thistle. And Bank Holiday Monday will have free walks put on by the Friends of Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>There will be guided walks leaving the Market Place at 10.30 and 14.00. Morning walks are:<\/p>\n<p>1556 Boundary Walk \u2013 with a Town Councillor and a Town Crier<br \/>\nLost Abbey Tour \u2013 with a member of the Twin Towns Society<br \/>\nAlternative Flowerbeds \u2013 with Abingdon Carbon Cutters<br \/>\nRivers of Abingdon \u2013 with an enthusiast from the Wilts and Berks Canal Trust<\/p>\n<p>and in the afternoon there will be:<\/p>\n<p>A Wildlife Walk to Radley Lakes \u2013 with Abingdon Naturalists<br \/>\nAbingdon\u2019s Industrial Past walk \u2013 with the Town Archivist<br \/>\nArt About Abingdon walk \u2013 with the &#8216;Backstreeter&#8217; (the Abingdon blogger)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19052604.jpg\" alt=\"Bank Holiday Weekend\" \/><br \/>\nWhen it comes to the &#8216;Art About Abingdon walk&#8217; I will not have all the answers. Blacksmith artist Jon Mills created the railings near Waitrose but I cannot work out what he had in mind with that rectangle with holes.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19052605.jpg\" alt=\"Bank Holiday Weekend\" \/><br \/>\nThat animal on the left is very familiar too but, as I write up my notes for the walk, I cannot remember why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the late May Bank Holiday Weekend and the Salter Steamer river services between Abingdon and Oxford have started again. At Abingdon Lock, River Banksy has created a couple of new sculptures for the new boating season. The Open Air pool has opened. There were some bands playing at the Crown and Thistle. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}