We’ve moored up three times today, and ended up exactly where we started. And I do mean exactly, because we’re on the same rings, just facing the other way. We were in no rush this morning, and eventually set off bound for Audlem. We then turned around at the winding hole before the locks and moored in the first available space, before taking a walk up into the village where we mooched around the shops and bought a couple of things.
We set off again on our return, and went just the short distance to the piling through Bridge 80. We had lunch, then walked over the bridge to the back entrance to OverWater Marina. We were going there to have a chat with Andy Russell, who’ll be doing our sign writing. We found him outside the paint shed, where he’s repainting a couple of boats for BCBM, and had a chat about colours and style, shading and scrolls. To get back, we walked the other way round the marina, which included going over the bridge over the entrance.
The mobile signal is much better at Coole Pilate, and Adrian has an online meeting this evening, so we set off again for another short hop. Bridge 82 has obviously had plenty of damage over the years, and the repairs show very clearly.
Lots of the boats on these moorings have changed since this morning, but the space we’d left a few hours earlier was still free so we went back into it. Moored a little further back were the people who were breasted up against us at the Crick Show in May, so we went to have a chat and find out what they’d been doing since then.
4 miles, 0 locks. (48 miles, 24 locks)
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