Every morning appears to be getting cooler. We are well huddled under our duvets plus a blanket each night now. The weather is going to remain cool until we leave the boat on Wednesday when it will improve – wouldn’t you know it. Our first task of the day was to do 13 single locks. … More Sunday 17th September – Gayton Junction to Northampton

Mixture of a day. We started with seven of the double banger locks which we are not going to be sad to leave behind. Unless you have a dancing partner to join you in these locks it is tough work for both driver and lock slave. We waved a not so fond farewell to our … More Saturday 16th September – Norton Junction to Gayton Junction

Very little to comment on today. Starting off this morning was like getting out into the slip stream of the continuous line of boats that were making their way down the Grand Union Canal. Where we are currently is at probably the busiest area of the entire canal network. Around us are multiple marinas, hire … More Friday 15th September – Napton Junction to Norton Junction

We had quite the sleep in today and didn’t arise until 9.00am. After a breakfast of ourScottish porridge, which we are heartily enjoying on these cool mornings, we walked into the town of Long Itchington. With a name like that we thought it warranted a visit. We walked back along the towpath and then took … More Thursday 14th September – Long Itchington to Napton Junction

It was a wild night on the cut. Very blustery indeed and it was good we were on bollards otherwise we would have heard the clank of chains all night if we had put out nappy pins or the long chains. This morning it continued to be blowy and you needed to hang on to … More Wednesday 13th September – Warwick to Long Itchington

Most of the day spent being Tommy the Tourists. We caught the local bus into Warwick City and then made our way to the castle. We had been here before in 1991 and in fact celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary here. We both remember sitting looking out at this spot having a cuppa tea. In … More Tuesday 12th September – Warwick

WOW, it was a tough day!!! 21 double locks all on our own with lots of leaky locks, high winds, fierce rain squalls, muddy footpaths and the list goes on and on. Having said that though, we have made it! Anya idea of us going out tonight to celebrate Marlene’s birthday is going to be … More Monday 11th September – Kingswood Junction to Warwick

Whoa!!!… it was a cold one this morning!!! We didn’t have far to go initially, only 2.5 miles up to the top of Knowle Locks where we had organised to catch up with John, Lynne and Doreen. They had driven across from Wolverhampton to join us for the day and of course for us to … More Sunday 10th September – Catherine de Barnes to Kingswood Junction

We  can report that today was a non-event. Here we were with the boat securely battened down against potential attack, baton at the ready, cell phone fully charged and both of us on heightened alert and all to no avail. That’s not to say we didn’t see or experience anything. The canals were certainly full … More Saturday 9th September – Miniworth to Catherine de Barnes

We seemed to spend most of the day dodging the rain. The one time we nearly got caught, we were filling the tank up with water and having a cuppa inside the boat whilst waiting. The cloud formations in England are quite stupendous. Lots of cumulus clouds of great height. You can spend hours making … More Friday 8th September – Fazeley Junction to Miniworth