There was rain early this morning, but after breakfast there seemed to be a bit of a break in the weather so we went out for a walk. We headed down the canal and over the aqueduct, and walked up the arm past Anglo Welsh to the end.
The Anglo Welsh base at Trevor was where we hired our first narrowboat, having previously had a plastic boat on the Thames. We couldn’t afford a whole week, and the first thing we did after setting off was go over the aqueduct.
We got back just as the rain returned. I spent the morning cooking various things, then this afternoon we had a visit from a BBC colleague, James, who grew up in this area and was back home for the weekend. We’ll go past his parents’ house tomorrow. We’d never actually met in person before, so it was really nice to meet him properly rather than just down a line from Salford.
The rain was heavy at times, but we wanted to move a little as we have a Tesco delivery coming this evening, but quite late as slots were scarce. We spotted a lull in the weather and went for it, heading down towards the lift bridge. When we got there, Adrian had an easy time as a boat was coming the other way and had already raised it.
Adrian was all set to lower it, when a group of canoeists said they wanted to come through, and would do it. We were aiming for a mooring on the offside just past the basin. These obviously used to be permanent moorings, but there are plenty of spaces here and all sorts of boats have used them over the past couple of days — and there are no signs at all. As we arrived, the heavens opened and we were glad we’d put on our full wet weather gear, just in case. The rings are also better spaced here, so we’re not being bashed about by every passing boat. I think 1 mile overestimates the distance we travelled, but I’m not getting in to halves!
1 mile, 0 locks. (63 miles, 37 locks)
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