Saturday 22nd April
Swanley Bridge Marina to Wrenbury
Today we returned to the boat after spending some time at
home. Train to Nantwich where we did a little shopping before taking a taxi for
the final part of the journey.
We had lunch on board before setting out in lovely sunshine.
The first lock came along very soon, and then there were four more before we
moored up near Wrenbury. We had a cup of tea and then walked up into the
village. We wanted to find out details of morning service at Wrenbury tomorrow
– we discovered that there won’t be one! (There are 3 churches in the group and
tomorrow’s service will be in one of the others.) We had a walk around the
village which has some very attractive houses (and a shop and a couple of
pubs).
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| Not a large family, but the first ones we've seen this year. |
Although it was not forecast, we had a lot of warm sunshine today.
Today’s miles and locks – 4.00 miles 5 locks
Total miles and locks – 113.00 miles
69 locks
Sunday
23rd April
Wrenbury to Whitchurch
Today dawned wet, grey and cold! The rain continued on and
off all day until about 7.00 p.m. when the sun came out – by that time we had
been moored up for several hours!
But to return to the morning, we left Wrenbury at about
8.30 and straightaway met the first of the Llangollen lift bridges – we also
met another boat coming the other way. We were obviously not the only early
starters. The next lift bridge has a road across it rather than just a footpath
– I have to press buttons to lower gates and stop the traffic – such power!
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| Lift Bridge carrying a footpath across the canal. |
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| Lift Bridge with road crossing the canal. |
10 locks today. The first four were well spaced out and then we arrived at Grindly Brook Locks where there are three individual locks and then the last three are a staircase needing care to navigate. Fortunately, there were volunteer lock-keepers on hand to help us through safely. We stopped for lunch after finishing the locks and then moved on a little way towards Whitchurch and moored up.
We took advantage of a break in the rain to walk into
Whitchurch along the line of what used to be a canal arm (now mainly filled in)
into the town centre. The rain started again but we continued our walk around
the town before returning to the boat.
There were a lot of boats around today – Grindley Brook
Locks were especially busy and there is very little space left here at Whitchurch
for boats arriving later than mid-afternoon.
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| Our mooring at Whitchurch |
Today’s miles and locks – 7.50 miles 10 locks
Total miles and locks – 120.50 miles 79 locks
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