Sunday Sue ensconced herself in the laundry room while I walked down the towpath to the Boat Building Chandlers to buy a cratch light fitting to replace the faulty one, it's about a four mile trip but the sun was out and the tow path wasn't too soggy. Lot's of boats were moving probably to get to the right side of the Trent & Mersey lock closures which start on the 3rd of November.
So here we are back where we started seven months later, the 2014 cruise started with a trip to the Caldon Canal then the Macclesfield Canal to the Peak Forest from there we winded our way south through the centre of Birmingham down on to the Thames and as far south as Godalming in Surrey via the River Wey. West as far as we could go on the Thames that started a trip to Ellesmere Port via Wales and the LLangollen Canal.
2014 Waterways Cruised:
- Trent & Mersey Canal
- Macclesfield Canal
- Peak Forest Canal
- Middlewich Branch of Shropshire Union Canal.
- Shropshire Union Canal
- Birmingham Main Line Canal
- Birmingham & Fazeley Canal
- Coventry Canal
- North Oxford Canal
- Grand Union Canal
- South Oxford Canal
- Thames River
- Wey River
- Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal.
- Llangollen Canal.
TOTAL:
865 miles 520 locks
Highlights
Basically every time I'm at the tiller is a highlight for me but the Pontycysyllte Aqueduct, National Waterway Museum at Ellesmere Port and of course, the Royal River were a few of my favorites, one of Sue's was Pogoing along to Toyah Willcox at the Crick boat show in May!
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