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		<title>Down to the Thames and Oxford</title>
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After reaching Kingswood Junction, we made a sharp right turn and joined the Grand Union Canal and after cruising for a couple of hours we reached the Hatton Flight, 21 impressive locks in quick succession, we did not want to start the decent through these locks until we were sure that we could do them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Festival Time, Via Cadburys</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We left Birmingham after a great weekend and made our way south, almost passing the Cadburys Factory at Bournville, well, you can’t pass up an opportunity to scoff free chocolate can you, so we moored up in their secure mooring point and joined the happy throng roaming around Cadburys World. After exploring the Factory (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Boat Lift and then Annie learns to drive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After leaving the Llangollen Canal behind, we made our way, via the Middlewich Link to the top end of the Trent and Mersey Canal and the Anderton Boat Lift. After meeting up with a couple of friends (Adrian and Michelle) we entered the Boat Lift and dropped down 50 ft to the River Weaver, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Llangollen Canal and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After leaving Nantwich, we arrived at the junction where the Llangollen Canal branched off to the left, and were immediately confronted with 4 extremely narrow locks, with signs to instruct us to lift our side fenders as the locks were only 7 ft wide, after threading our way in to the bottom lock, with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ever Onwards towards the Llangollen Canal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 19:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After turning left on to the Worcester / Birmingham Canal, Annie (who is still “doing” all the locks) perfected her “Kick Lock” technique, this comprises of standing on one half of the exit gate and “kicking” the other half gate open (see photo below), this saves her one trip around the lock when leaving the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Hillmorton towards Llangollen via Tewkesbury</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 19:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We arrived at Hillmorton boatyard and abandoned Xilion Rose to the “Bottom
 Painters”, our plan was to drive to Tewkesbury in our classic car to attend the Hampden Lodge Ladies Festival where we had a tremendous time, meeting with most of our family and friends. After a great weekend we returned to Hillmorton (with thanks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring has Sprung (So we are off again)</title>
		<link>http://www.xilionrose.co.uk/?p=262</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After our 5 month winter mooring in Aylesbury Basin, and the spring cleaning completed, it was time to set off on our 2010 adventures. Having made friends with Ann and Gerald (and Holly the dog) who were also winter moored in the basin on their boat Hampshire Rose, it was decided that we would leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Escaping the Ice and Snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we were in Spain for a week in late November we were asked if we would House Sit a beautiful Spanish style house for six weeks, starting early February, so after we spent about 1 second considering the offer, we accepted and have now decamped to our temporary abode in Velez Malaga, about 25 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter comes in with a bang.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the lack of blog updates over the last couple of months, but being moored in one place is very boring after the fun of cruising the waterways last year. However, we did manage to get a week away in Spain with some old (an in &#8220;known for a long time&#8221;) friends, Pete and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crick to Aylesbury via the Isle of Wight</title>
		<link>http://www.xilionrose.co.uk/?p=236</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaving Xilion Rose safely moored in Crick Marina, we arrived in Thame and picked up our second love, our 1953 Sunbeam Alpine, which had been living in our daughters garage while we cruised the UK canals. After a magic long weekend in the Isle of Wight with the Thame Classic Car Club, we returned to [...]]]></description>
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