Very cruisy start to the morning as didn’t get away until 11.00am This little garden was across from where we had moored for the night. Besides the volunteers helping you through locks, they also keep a stretch of the canal litter free and attend to some gardens as well as mowing grasses and whipper snipping. … More To Kinver – 3rd July 2022
It started out as a wet day and pretty much continued like that until 4.00pm. We needed to get a bit of a move on as the last few days were spent being social butterflies with Lynne and John, which was thoroughly enjoyable. Today was going to be about locks. The Bratch Locks are a … More Staffs & Worcs Canal – 2nd July 2022
Picture almost says it all. Just the beaver and Mountie missing. Life is complete. We managed another two hours of cruising to finish in a suburb of Wolverhampton called Compton. One of the locks we went through today boasted one of these distinctive circular weirs which is peculiar to this canal. They are fascinating to … More Happy Canada Day – 1st July 2022
We have indicated with a red dot where we currently are and the direction we are headed. So we have skirted around the north of Birmingham and are now heading down the west. Not too many people are aware that there are more canals in Birmingham than there are in Venice. Birmingham has 35 miles … More The Venice of the UK – 30th June 2022
Off and out of the blocks by 8.45am. Not in any particular hurry today but wanted to get to the town of Penkridge by midday as they have a market day on Wednesdays. We have been chris-crossing with the M6 all day and at times it has been right on top of us. Supposedly the … More Stan Laurel the Barber – 29th June 2022
“Of what” you may ask. It is 19th years to the day since we moved from Australia to Canada expecting to do a two-year stint – well, we all know that didn’t happen. Of those 19 years, we think we have probably spent at least two of them outside of Canada travelling. Talking about travelling, … More 19th Anniversary – 28th June 2022
Did the Swan die?? No, the swan did survive. It kept pecking until 9.00pm and then did not start the next morning until 8.30am – it is one very lucky bird. Another bird that we were lucky to see is the UK Kingfisher. They are very difficult birds to catch a glimpse of but once … More Kingfisher Day – 27th June 2022
Time for some reconciliation of what we have done to date. Since we left the Over Water Marina (yellow dot) on the 6th June, we have travelled for 20 days (pink dot). This is a distance of 130 miles (209k’s). We have done 81 locks. We headed off at 9.00am and by 9.15am we had … More Full Steam Ahead – 26th June 2022
We moved up the cut for an hour and then pulled in at Scholars Green where we were awaiting the arrival of John and Lynne. Lynne is the sister of a good friend of ours in Calgary. Each time we have been on the canals, we have met up with the guys along with Lynne’s … More Scholars Green – Another Pub – 25th June 2022
We have not moved along the cut at all today. Our plan was to at least motor for an hour. Instead, we came across a better plan involving spending four and a half hours in a pub with some good friends. First task of the day was to do some further route review as new … More Status Unchanged – 24th June 2022
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