29th August 2016 We bid our adieu’s to Horst and Elfi this morning as they are off to Cornwall for a few days before returning to Germany. Very sad to see them go. So it is back to us plus the pooches and nb Lucy. Spent an hour this morning rejiging the cruising plan as … More Bumble Lock to Kinver

25th to 28th August 2016 Apologies to our blog followers but have been very busy with back to back guests at floating hotel nb Lucy for the last week. We had a wonderful day and a half with our family of four from the Netherlands. They really lucked out as we had the most wonderful … More Market Drayton to Bumble Lock

23rd and 24th August 2016 Hello, my name is Camilla and I am visiting Di and Fraser with my family for 2 nights. I am staying with them in a house boat which fits all of us plus their two cute puppies. We landed yesterday and had an introduction around the area and we got … More Nantwich to Market Drayton

22nd August 2016 We had three hours cruising today to get us up to Nantwich where we will take on our next group of guests. We had a few chores to do first such as giving nb Lucy a good drink of water and taking her to the pumpout for a good old clean out. … More Onto Nantwich

20th and 21st August 2016 Photoless Day for Saturday. Our good news is that Mapes is improving. She still didn’t eat anything but just seems a little brighter in herself. Still need to keep a really close eye on her as she is not out of the woods just yet. It was a day of … More Back through Chester and out the other side.

19 August 2016 Awoke to absolutely dismal weather with rain and wind. Also woke to a dog that was very flat and causing concern. Mapes had not eaten for 36 hours and drunk very little water. She had also attempted to go to the toilet and was passing blood so it was a trip to … More National Waterways Museum and Visit to Vet

17th to 18th August 2016 So today was set to be a day of playing Tommy the tourist. First item on the agenda today though was to walk back along the canal about 1.5k to a vet to pick up the pooches food that we had ordered a couple of weeks back. Took both pooches … More Chester then to Ellesmere Port

13th to 15th August 2016 So, how about this for a spot to do a blog on a spectacular day. We pulled up today in a beautiful spot on the Shropshire Canal (that’s Shropie to those in the know) as the nb Lucy’s mother ship came out to do a service on her. She has … More Northwich – Anderton – Middlewich – Barbridge Junction

12th August 2016 Big day today with us taking nb Lucy onto the Anderton Lift. We have visited the Anderton Lift s number of times over the years but never had the opportunity to use it until today. Our booking to go down was at 10.50am so we were there half an hour early for … More Anderton to Northwich and Six of the Seven Wonders now done

11th August 2016 Anderton is where it all started for us back in 1991. We hired a 34’ boat called the Nuthatch out of the Anderton Marina to do the Llangollen Canal. The Pearson’s guide said it would be a 10 day trip and of course being early 30 year olds who had boundless energy … More Anderton to Anderton