29th September 2016 Well, this is it. The final blog and the end of our wondrous journey of the English inland waterways in 2016. We accomplished what we had set out to do except for the Rochdale Canal which we will come back and do. We circumnavigated 50% of the system so that leaves 50% … More Heathrow to YYC

28th September 2016 Addendum to the evening of the 27th September. We had the delightful pleasure of spending the evening in the Star Inn in Stone with Lynne and John who drove across from Wolverhampton to say goodbye. It was about a thirty minute drive for them and on a weekday night it was an … More Stone to Heathrow

27th September 2016 Tell you what, we are getting use to this sleeping in lark. Dragged ourselves out of the beds at 9.30am and after a quick breakfast we went across to the office and got our suitcases to commence packing. This is rather a big task as after four months it is amazing what … More Stone

26th September 2016 Huge sleep in today with neither of us poking our noses out until 10.00am. It was wet and miserable weather and quite chilly for our final day. Headed out with heavy hearts with heavy rain pounding down so Di and the pooches stayed inside and commenced packing up. There was a final … More Great Haywood to Stone

24th and 25th September 2016 Apologies to our devoted blog followers for not posting last night. We cruised for five hours yesterday and by the time we moored up and organised ourselves, we felt a little tired to blog. So, let’s go back to yesterday and recount our happenings. This would be our last long … More Fradley Junction to Great Haywood

23rd September 2016 Now junction hopping (don’t get your junctions mixed up !) and back into the county of Staffordshire. The countryside is getting a lot wider but remains scenic. Excuse the shot of the power cables in amongst the rolling hills. We are getting some lovely light in the morning around 11.00am and snapping … More Fazeley Junction to Fradley Junction

 22nd September 2016 First day of autumn and the weather turned it on for us. We got to a high of 18c and when out of the shade it was gorgeous. Last night though it rained a lot and we had moored in a cutting which at the time we thought would be a good … More Curdworth to Fazeley Junction

21st September 2016 We had a long day today as we were needing to tackle a number of locks along the Fazeley Canal which goes subterranean under the buildings of central Birmingham. Firstly, we did our routine of taking the pooches out for their morning ablutions on a bit of greenspace but what we did … More Birmingham to Curdworth

20th September 2016 Busy morning as 1 ½ hours of cruising to do; shopping and filling up with water and meeting with our BFF’s W+M who we spent 50 days with at the beginning of our trip. A little fresh when poking our noses out from under the blankets but Di seemed to have a … More King’s Norton Junction and back into Birmingham

19th September 2016 After two pretty hard days doing locks we shouted ourselves to a lie in until 9.00am this morning. Awoke to drizzly weather so warmed up with some porridge and then headed out on the cut. Our mission today is to complete the Stratford Canal as far as King’s Norton Junction where we … More Hockley Heath to King’s Norton Junction