{"id":902,"date":"2014-02-21T16:17:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T16:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/?page_id=902"},"modified":"2015-05-06T14:49:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:49:23","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company was set up by Karin Klinkenbergh and Michael Hoey who got their inspiration from an Irish T.V. Documentary Series about taking an original Barge, \u201845M\u2019, laden with a cargo of beer and bricks along the Grand Canal, from Dublin to Limerick. They both wanted to re-capture the unique way of life that travelling by barge portrayed and offer this experience to others\u2026hence Canalways was \u2018born&#8217;. \u00a0And from very humble beginnings it has grown to attract people from far-flung corners of the world; Alexander in New Zealand, Harjavalta in Finland, Seattle in North America\u2026all coming to enjoy life drifting along Ireland\u2019s Inland Waterways. \u00a0 ( Read our Guests Logs ) \u00a0Later Karin discovered that her paternal Great Grandparents owned a Barge company in Doordrecht, Holland, so she has Canal Water in her blood.<br \/>\nThere is something special about Canal Water, as the famous Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh eulogised in his poem \u201cLines Written On A Seat On The Grand Canal\u201d. Read it here (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcd.ie\/english\/patrickkavanagh\/lineswrittenonaseat.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.tcd.ie\/english\/patrickkavanagh\/lineswrittenonaseat<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">.html<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>We Also recommend, \u00a0for all those who enjoy boat journeys on the inland waterways, reading<br \/>\n\u201cThree Men In A Boat\u201d by Jerome K. Jerome.. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Looking forward to welcome you on board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company was set up by Karin Klinkenbergh and Michael Hoey who got their inspiration from an Irish T.V. Documentary Series about taking an original Barge, \u201845M\u2019, laden with a cargo of beer and bricks along the Grand Canal, from Dublin to Limerick. They both wanted to re-capture the unique way of life that travelling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-902","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canalways.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}