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 …
We have moved on from the Costa del Luz to the Costa del Sol and the Mediterranean Sea. […]
After an overnight stay in Caceres, we arrived safely in Conil on Friday 13 December where we will be spending Christmas. We are staying at Camping La Rosaleda just outside this pretty Spanish resort. It is a pleasant walk into the town from the campsite. […]
After gale force winds crossing the English Channel and Bay of Biscay from Portsmouth to Bilbao we have arrived safely for our third long winter break in Spain.
We must have gotten our sea legs from so much narrow boating as we found the rocking on the Cap Finistere ferry […]
Here we are moored at the Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, on moorings used by Peaky Blinders canal boats themselves This museum was one of the main locations for the popular tv series ‘Peaky Blinders’ but is so much more than just a film location (as can be seen if you tap the link on …
Our journey from Birmingham City Centre to Dudley involved experiencing transport links from hundreds of years ago to one under construction both integrated beautifully in my opinion. We felt that the combination of the old main line canal and the M5 re-alignment was strangely beautiful as we glided slowly underneath It was a journey we …
