Saturday 4th June 2016. We actually managed to drag ourselves out of bed at 8.00am so that we could be cruising by 9.00am as we needed to make it to Milton to pick up the new battery for the computer. It was rather a nice experience cruising at that hour as it is very still … More Back to Hanley Park

Friday 3rd June 2016 – As last night’s stop point at FrogHall is at the terminus of the Caldon Canal, all we need to do now is turn around and head back the way we came. It took us 4 days to come up the Caldon from the Trent and Mersey at Eturia junction but … More Heading back and first Mechanical

Today we traveled from Cheddleton to the terminus of the Caldon Canal at Froghall. Here the canal runs through the Churnet Valley and it really is a bit of a hidden gem of the inland waterways system. It reminded us a lot of the very famous and hugely popular Llangollen Canal in Wales that we … More The Churnet Valley – Thurs 2nd June 2016.

Today’s travels were to start with a quick visit up to the town of Leek a 20min walk from our mooring. We were expecting a small village but it ended up as a proper town in the full throttles of market day. Leek is a lovely town with its main street packed full of some … More A visit to Leek – Wed 1st June 2016

Ooops, we really have got into this swing of rising late and hence being the last boat to leave the moorings. Fraser went into the little town of Milton this morning to order a new battery for his computer as his current one is dead. Milton is a tiny village with a second hand book … More Caldon Canal to Leek – Tuesday, 31st May 2016

oved off at 10.30am heading towards the Caldon Canal. We ascended 5 locks and then had to do a three point turn to get onto the Caldon Canal. The junction was extremely busy with lots of boats waiting to either come up or down the locks on the main canal. It can get rather nerve … More Caldon Canal – Monday, 30th May 2016

  A rather leisurely commencement to the day raising our heads at 9.30am. We are going to use the excuse that jet lag is still upon us. We were meant to wander down the canal to the Wedgewood Factory but in the short distance of ½ mile we managed to get ourselves slightly lost. Finally … More Wedgewood/Trentham Gardens – Sunday, 29th May 2016

We think we are finally caught up on sleep and back on schedule. Jet lag doesn’t seem to affect dogs!? Spent the morning doing a final few errands like obtaining a spare tube for the bikes and those items we forgot on our shop from yesterday. One of the things we remember doing a lot … More First Cruise Day – Saturday, 28th May 2016

Our intention today was to stock up the boat with food; collect the dog food we had ordered through a local vet in Stone; drop off the car and collect our two folding bikes. All of this happened according to plan. A nice change after yesterday’s debacle. We did a reasonable food shop at the … More Set Up Day – Friday, 27th May 2016

Set off from home at 2.00pm when Dwight drove us to Air Canada cargo to drop off the pooches and then around to drop us off. Our first day started out OK with us being allowed three bags on our flight along with being 4 lbs over on one of our bags with no additional … More Day from Hell – Wednesday/Thursday – 25th to 26th May 2016