Hurleston Locks the entrance to the Llangollen canal.
This is the trip boat on the Manchester Ship canal with a full load.
This was last Thursday on the Preece Arm, just before sunset with a storm coming in.
Last week there wasn't much to write about, a quiet week as they say. We moved on from Whitchurch to open country, then down the Preece branch to Whixall marina for services and diesel at 75 ppl, we then stopped for two nights half way back to the main line it was very quiet and peaceful.
We arrived in Ellesmere on Friday pm and plan to stay around here for the next 10 days or so. Hope the weather gets better as forecast, because yesterday the wind was very strong, and last night I don't think it stopped raining all night. I'm hoping to get some painting done in the next few days, that is if the weather picks up.
Note to Eric & Patsy in California
We are not far from your home town now, in fact Eiddwen is going there tomorrow to do some shopping.I hope you both enjoy the canals as much as we do, BW are starting to put prices up for us CC's, next year there is talk of an extra £ 150 on top of our licence to cover the use of services etc for 12 month cruisers, and the price of red diesel is changing on the 1st November. When we buy fuel after that date, we will have to declare how much is for propulsion and how much for heat and light, this will mean that boatyards will charge us at a higher rate for propulsion. The general consensus is 60/40 split when cruising, but when moored up I don't know yet.
That's all folks.
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