Today we reached the junction of the Coventry Canal with the Trent and Mersey Canal which is the iconic Fradley Junction and is very popular with both boaters and visitors. We managed to find a mooring directly outside the The Swan pub which sits on the junction. We paid £5 for the privilege of our …
Today is 1 June, gloriously warm and sunny and Iron Butterfly has been spruced up and ready to show herself to the world. In other words a perfect day to start our Summer 21 voyage. Setting off from Dunchurch Pools Marina south of Rugby we are hoping to get to our home city of York …
Well we are here on the boat and having a delicious summer salad in the cratch of the boat A cratch is a well deck at the front of the boat raised from the floor level of the cabin. We have benches fitted over useful storage lockers along the side and a fold up table …
We decided in 2018 to give Chester a miss and visit it some other time. Now is that other time. Heading from the Middlewich canal up the Shropshire Union towards Chester was quite a surprise. Starting at the staircase lock at Bunbury the journey goes through a further 9 locks and meanders through some beautiful …
The Trent and Mersey canal reaches its summit in Stoke on Trent with a massive Etruria lock raising boats 13’2”. It is the 10th deepest on the canal network.The once bustling factories on the canal are in a sad state of affairs in the main but for one which is preserved as a museum called …
After 13 weeks of self isolating from COVID 19 on Iron Butterfly in the marina at Dunchurch near Rugby, we eventually set off on 21 June 2020 on our Summer 2020 cruise. […]
In February every year Sitges (the Spanish town of festivals) holds Carnaval (sic). The centre piece of the festival is a parade which is held over 3 consecutive nights. The town goes wild parading through the town in a mass of colourful costumes and floats. If you stand in one spot then the parade will …
We arrive in Sitges to beautiful warm, sunny weather. It’s hard to believe that it is only mid-February. The town is celebrating one of the biggest festivals of the year – Carnival. Fancy dress appears to be the order of the day and the people are making the most of the exceptionally good weather We …
