Month: May 2018
Days 32 to 34
Day 32 and we stayed at Tixall wide and walked to Shugborough Park. Last time we visited here when we did the four counties ring many years ago we got thoroughly wet so were pleased that it didn’... Read More
Day 30 and 31
Day 30 D woke J at 0615 saying look out the window the badgers are there again. All very well but J was sound asleep and is short sighted and had to find her glasses. Found an elderly single hander at... Read More
Days 27 to 29
Day 27 we had a slow start as we had hoped to get a minor repair made on our cratch cover (too many close encounters with locks) but after waiting an hour we cut our loses and moved on. The canal was ... Read More
Days 25 and 26
Day 25 proved to be a lucky day. It started cold but beautifully sunny. We wanted to try to get on today and the gods were with us; we had a number of lift bridges to go through and were lucky ... Read More
Days 22 to 24
Day 22 – we decided to try to leave fairly early to try to avoid the flow of boats in and whilst this worked partially it wasn’t entirely successful. J had to reverse a couple of times des... Read More
Days 20 and 21
Day 20 we had hoped to get over the aqueduct early to miss the main traffic and this seemed to work well to start with as we had no one in front of us and one following us. It all went a bit pear shap... Read More
Days 18 and 19
Day 18 no locks today but a number of lift bridges, most of these are for footpaths, private tracks or really small roads but one of the ones we had today allows you to stop the traffic, flashing ligh... Read More
Days 16 and 17
Day 16 we moved from the Shropshire Union canal onto the Llangollen canal. This is probably one of the most popular canals, and certainly one of the most recognised; nearly everyone knows about the Po... Read More