8th to 10th August 2016 Up early to complete cleaning nb Lucy and getting her ready for our next guests P+P from Canada. Here was beautiful light and absolute stillness which certainly warranted a photo. After getting them settled we dragged them across to what has been our local here in Manchester for a bite … More Manchester – Lymm – Anderton

7th August 2016 Bit of a noisy night last night but what do you expect when you are moored up in the center of a large city on a Saturday night. Today we split up for a few hours to do our own thing. Di went back into the center of the shopping area of … More Manchester Day 2

6th August 2016 Magnificent weather today with a balmy 23c. Lots of sun with light cloud coverage – won’t last – now we are sounding like the true English about the weather. The “won’t last” sounds a lot like a Canadian also – eh! Have just returned to the boat after four hours out and … More Manchester – Day 1 of 2

5th August 2016 We knew we had a day of 8 hours cruising so out of bed by 8.00am with a quick breakfast and off we went with the weather in our favour – the latter being a big win for us. In fact we have the next three days of great weather with highs … More Exciting Day ++

2nd to 4th August 2016 Since our last blog we have been going over mostly the same canal as we had on our way to Liverpool. We made it back to Wigan last night after a short cruisy day with a stop at a pub for a light lunch. We went passed this row of … More Making our way to Leigh

31st July to 1st August 2016 We haven’t done any blogging for a few days as we have been making our way back to Wigan from Liverpool since the 31st July. We had a very early start on the 31st July as we had to muster around the dock to start the guided trip back … More Making our way back to Wigan

27th to 30th July 2016 Well, what a wonderful few days we have had away from nb Lucy. No offence to nb Lucy though. We had always planned to take a couple of days away and go up to the Lakes District which is north of us. When we mentioned this to Nick he informed … More Yorkshire Dales Bound

Tuesday 26th July 2016 Very quick blog today. We split up with Di and Marlene going shopping in the new Liverpool 1 shopping center. Every store that you could imagine is there along with expensive prices. We wandered past the Cavern but it looked rather dark and foreboding so opted to find a coffee shop. … More Liverpool with all the Liverpudlians

Monday 25th July 2016 It was certainly surreal waking up this morning in the centre of Liverpool on our floating green machine. We certainly stand out amongst the swish and swanky privately owned boats. It is very rare for a hire boat to come into the docks as most hires are not long enough for … More Liverpool Docks

Sunday 24th July 2016 Big day today. As mentioned in previous blogs we had registered for our passage into Liverpool docks today. We needed an early start of 7.30 am as we were required to be at a swing bridge that was manned by CART staff. The same CART staff will be guiding us all … More Maghull into Liverpool