Saturday 19th June – Dobcross to Diggle  Did a quick tour of the village opposite Dobcross called UpperMills this morning and had a “nooice cuppa tea” served by some bloke who looked a bit like Roy out of Coronation Street. UpperMills is a good enough town with a busy high street. To access the town … More The lock gods are with us today!

Saturday 18th June 2016 – Woodend to Dobcross We woke up this morning to a dry day and a forecast of no rain. With the drying out conditions we thought we would take advantage and get the bikes out. We headed down the path that follows an old railway line. It was the first serious … More Let’s start climbing

Friday 17th June 2016 We need to do an addendum to yesterdays block. After we had moored up and were having dinner we noticed a couple of girls down on the towpath in front of the boat who had a shopping trolley. They looked like they were in their mid teens. We didn’t pay a … More Dunkinfield (Outer Manchester) – Woodend

Thursday 16th June 2016 Not much to write about on the blog today as we didn’t travel anywhere. We were going to head off after lunch and go onto the Huddersfield Canal but our plans changed. We wandered into the city of Ashton today which is an outer suburb of Manchester to have a look … More Dunkinfield (Outer Manchester)

Wednesday 15th June 2016 We hit the sack last night at 10.00pm and didn’t raise our heads until 9.00am. Two very tired little ducks. Where we had moored at the bottom lock was just around the corner of the very well known Marple Aqueduct. It is very hard to do these structures justice unless you … More Bottom Marple Locks to Dunkinfield (Outer Manchester)

Tuesday 14th June 2016 Here we are on Wednesday 15th June sitting in yet another laundrette catching up on our blog from yesterday. Below will explain why we are a day late as a lot happened. We knew today was going to take us a bit of effort as we had to do the Marple … More Bugsworth Basin to Bottom Marple Locks

Monday 13thth June 2016 Di’s official day off today as it is her birthday. Unfortunately she has to celebrate it in the wintry wet weather at Bugsworth Basin. Our canal friends W+M from Bremen also pulled into the Bugsworth Basin last night and this morning they popped over with a lovely bunch of flowers, bottle … More Di’s Birthday

Sunday 12thth June 2016 The day started off overcast so decided to make the most of it and head off early to do some servicing of the boat and try to make Whaley Bridge by the evening fall. Our first task of the day was to have the poo tank emptied and fill up the … More Higher Poynton to Bugsworth Basin – Peak Forest Canal

Saturday 11thth June 2016 Well our noses are well and truly out of joint because we did not get an invite to Liz’s 90th birthday bash in London. There are probably a lot of people in the same frame of mind as we are and here is an example of how some of them have … More Liz’s 90th

Friday 10th June 2016 We have been closely following when the repairs to the Macclesfield Canal will be completed as this is very instrumental to how our route will progress. We only had one hours cruising this morning to move from the town of Macclesfield to Bollington which is just before the blockage. As it … More Macclesfield to Bollington