{"id":8555,"date":"2020-10-31T01:26:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T00:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=8555"},"modified":"2020-10-31T01:26:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T00:26:31","slug":"christopher-columbus-carers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=8555","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Columbus&#8217; Carers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Christopher Columbus&#8217; Carers<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On September 23rd 1493, Christopher Columbus embarked on his second expedition to the New World, setting sail with a fleet of 17 ships. On September 23rd 2000, members of the Carers walk, discovered one of Columbus&#8217;s ships in the Old Harbour at Barry Island! The ship was certainly a colourful sight and looked like it had survived many voyages on the seas, as can be seen in the photograph.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8463\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?attachment_id=8463\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture6-1.jpg?fit=500%2C424\" data-orig-size=\"500,424\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Picture6\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture6-1.jpg?fit=300%2C254\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture6-1.jpg?fit=500%2C424\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8463\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture6-1.jpg?resize=500%2C424\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture6-1.jpg?w=500 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture6-1.jpg?resize=300%2C254 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our voyage around Barry Island took in both Nells and Friars Points and a stroll across the almost empty, freshly groomed golden sands. We are lucky to live in the Vale and during our local lockdown to have such a wonderful beach to walk on. Come and join us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Columbus&#8217; Carers On September 23rd 1493, Christopher Columbus embarked on his second expedition to the New World, setting sail with a fleet of 17 ships. On September 23rd 2000, members of the Carers walk, discovered one of Columbus&#8217;s ships in the Old Harbour at Barry Island! The ship was certainly a colourful sight and looked like it had survived [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[362],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cWjO-2dZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12311,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=12311","url_meta":{"origin":8555,"position":0},"title":"Carers Walk at Barry Island","author":"Alan Williams","date":"11th October 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"CARERS WALK \u00a0 What a lovely day for the Carers walk at Barry Island\u2026 and delicious ice creams at the end too! 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