{"id":1113,"date":"2008-12-09T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2008-12-09T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T13:44:00","slug":"visit-to-slimbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/12\/visit-to-slimbridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Slimbridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just got back from a busy weekend in Gloucestershire doing a pre-Christmas family visit and getting my car MOT-ed. Unfortunately just after the MOT it developed an oil leak so we had to leave it there and borrow my brothers car to get back home!<\/p>\n<p>Morgan also came down with a sickness bug so was fairly ill all day Sunday whilst we drove back!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/slimbridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1114\" title=\"slimbridge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/slimbridge-120x80.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/slimbridge-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/slimbridge-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/slimbridge.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a>We did find time however to visit the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at <a title=\"Slimbridge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wwt.org.uk\/centre\/122\/slimbridge.html\" target=\"_blank\">Slimbridge<\/a> and luckily had a lovely, sunny, crisp winters day for it. Morgan liked it there and Anna enjoyed the warm, centrally heated, comfortable bird hide. If they had provided arm chairs and cups of hot chocolate I don&#8217;t think we would have got her out of it! We even managed a sneak peak behind the scenes of the amphibian displays where we saw lots of newts, frogs and salamanders that weren&#8217;t on display and some rare (extinct in the wild) newts that they were about to start a breeding program with.<\/p>\n<p>A nice day out and a nice place to visit.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday was good too, with ice-skating in the morning followed by lunch in a pub, but I&#8217;ll write more about that if I can get some photos \/ video of us skating!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just got back from a busy weekend in Gloucestershire doing a pre-Christmas family visit and getting my car MOT-ed. Unfortunately just after the MOT it developed an oil leak so we had to leave it there and borrow my brothers car to get back home! 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