Said our farewells to Charlie and the twins this morning, Yvonne has just dropped us of at O'Hare airport for our flight to Tampa where we will meet up with our friends at the car rental hall and then drive to Redington.
I probably won't blog to much over the next two weeks as I don't want to bore you with tale's of relaxing on a beach or by the pool all day.
One story I forgot to mention was during a dinner party the conversation came round to how the original canal boats were horse drawn. "Oh " exclaimed Chrissie (one of our hosts American friends) "The canal's couldn't of been very deep or the horses would drown". The concept of the tow path had to be explained to her.
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Stop planks at Aston lock. Canal is frozen solid with 3" thick ice. During last weeks cold snap we had a little frost forming on the ... -
The last two days cruising we have taken a battering from the element's. Yesterday it was very wet, luckily there was no wind to accomp... -
The Epping stoves firebricks need replacing, I had done a temporary bodge repair over the last two winters by cementing the cracks. It...
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