Wednesday 30 August 2023

Today we have moored just before Audlem with a nice view over the countryside, after a visit to the village we had a quick pint in the Shroppie Fly.




Tuesday 29 August 2023

This morning I went to do the greaser and found a stowaway and tonight the Blue Moon is shining bright.

Tonight we are moored just South of the turning on to the Llangollen Canal and North of Nantwich.




Yesterday we started to cruise the Middlewich Arm mooring up for the night in the country and then completed cruising it today to join the Shropshire Union Canal.



Sunday 27 August 2023

Tonight we are moored in Middlewich, we passed the boat sales which we visited first when we decided to buy a boat and passing the famous flashes.



Before leaving Marston today we paid a visit to the Salt works which is a museum dedicated to the manufacture of salt from an underground naturial Brine source.



Saturday 26 August 2023

Whilst we waited to travel through Saltersford Tunnel on the hour there was a carving of a kingfisher on a rotten tree and Hilary put on her new hat to protect the new hair do, cruised past Anderton Lift on to Marston for tonight.




Last night we moored at the site of the Dutton Breach, this is the place where the canal and bank collapsed into the fields below.


After picking parts up from Midland Chandlers and travelling through the tunnel you join the Trent and Mersea Canal.





Yesterday we left Stockton Heath and travelled along the Bridgewater Canal until Preston Brook Tunnel where it finishes.



Thursday 24 August 2023

Yesterday we left the small market town of Lymm and moved on to Stockton Heath.


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Tuesday 22 August 2023

Happy Birthday Ruby eight today.

Monday 21 August 2023

Today we left the Basin cruising on to Sale to pick up supplies.