Summer Trip 2015

We did not do a blog for our trip last year, basically just couldn’t be bothered, but our journey took us into London, then we travelled up the Rivers Lee and Stort.  Both rivers were new to us and proved a very good trip.  To extend our outing we then travelled the Coventry Canal and the Ashby. The weather was kind which also helps to the enjoyment and we returned home at the end of July after being out for about three months.

The plan for this year’s trip is straight forward.  Seven hundred miles and around 500 locks, visiting Macclesfield, Leeds, Halifax, Doncaster and Sheffield, then over the Pennines and down to Wigan, possibly Lancaster, followed by Birmingham and then home.

We’ve now been out on the cut for one week having left Crick marina on the 26^th April.  We chugged northwards along the Oxford and Coventry canals before joining the Trent & Mersey canal at Fradley Junction. Though we passed through Rugby, Nuneaton and Tamworth we didn’t stop as we have passed this way many times before.

The forecast is for rain all day so plan to stay moored just outside of Stone and move off tomorrow and visit the Wedgewood pottery museum close to Stoke.

Hawkesbury Junction. Passed the Greyhound, without stopping.

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