The Adventure

   We moved from our mooring in Audlem at the top of the locks to the offside mooring at the bottom of the locks, opposite to the towpath. There were no passing walkers, being offside, which meant we could leave Sal outside with a clear conscience. (One of my bugbears […]

        Two months to the day after the normal mooring rules were suspended, the restrictions were lifted again. We are now allowed to cruise again, but leisure boaters are still restricted to day trips and are not permitted to stay on their boats overnight. For us, though, […]

  We stayed in Walsall Town Arm Basin for three nights in the end, and it was really quite nice (apart from a stabbing right outside the boat! The stabbing was concerning, obviously, but we felt quite safe as there were Police Officers outside the boat for the next 24 […]

  We stayed in Gas Street Basin for four nights and had a very pleasant stay. We decided against moving to the other side as we had no repeat of the thumping idiot incident. The weather, unfortunately, wasn’t great but we had some nice canal side walks. Sadly, we needed […]

  We started our return journey  from Napton Junction and left Calcutt locks on Friday 31st Jan, cruising the short distance to the top of Stockton flight – 2 miles and 3 locks. On Saturday, 1st Feb, we did the 8 locks of the Stockton flight plus the 2 at […]

  We stayed at Fradley Junction, or just south of it, and moved on Wednesday 8th Jan, after picking up another couple of parcels from Fradley village. (With gloomy forecasts of snow and ice often in the news, we’d decided to make up our own pump out kit in case […]

  We moved from Fradley Junction on Saturday 7th Dec and cruised to Alrewas – still don’t know how to pronounce that! Unfortunately, I left our windlass hanging on the fence whilst we moored and it was only when we were talking to a passing family that we realised, as […]

          We moved on Monday 18th November, on a lovely sunny autumn day, for our return trip down the Ashby, mooring for the night just south of Market Bosworth. On Tuesday, we continued cruising south and moored in a lovely spot near the village of Stoke […]

      We left our moorings in Rugby quite late in the day on Monday 28th, having done a good shop in Tesco first. We didn’t go far and stopped at Newbold-on-Avon as we had an Amazon delivery going to the Post Office on Tuesday 29th. The towpath was […]

      We stayed on our mooring just south of Napton on Friday (18th) as the weather was pretty horrible again. On the advice of our waterways guide, we decided to walk up to the old engine house (“that’ll be interesting” we thought) at the end of a now […]