The Basin at night

 Yesterday Maralyn and Eric fellow moorers in Brinklow visited and after lunch Eric suggested visiting a Butterfly Farm.

 We are now moored in Stratford Upon Avon after the weekend Boat Festival getting ready to travel on the River Avon.

 I am bit behind with the posts as we had Craig aboard for a week and he helped us to cruise from Birmingham to just before Stratford Upon Avon, as we travelled to Stratford we were informed that there was a boat festival and had to cut the cruising short.

 Today Birmingham celebrated 50 years of Black Sabbath with a tribute band in the island  on the island in Gas Street and three original band members in a barge.

 Yesterday Rita and Scooby came for a visit.

 Being moored in Cambrian Wharf has given us chance to spend our Christmas Token and my first attempt at bread making

 Today we travelled the old main line canal travelling under the M5.
as we travelled down the locks to join the new main line we managed to get a Futon mattress on the prop.
Tonight we are moored in Cambrian Wharf.

Yesterday we spent the day at the Black Country Museum having a fish and chip dinner cooked the old fashioned way.

 Tonight we are moored in the Black Country Museum and today we took a boat trip through the Dudley Tunnel to see the lime works.
Peter volunteered to foot the boat through the tunnel.

 Last night we had a over night stay in Wednesfield as we caught up with the boats that we moved on for the other day.

The other day we were ahead schedule and took a trip down the Cannock Extension Canal, if you keep walking after you reached the end you would get run over on the A5.

 Last nights moorings using available light, moved on today as flotilla of twenty boats were arriving at the moorings