Ellesmere

Here I am Rune

Distance 7.1 miles

Total 656 Locks 25 Tunnels

Running total mileage 990.4miles

Well we made it as far as Ellesmere but then decided to remain moored in the Ellesmere Branch virtually outside of Tesco’s. Not having properly visited Ellesmere before we may take an extra day here and remain until Saturday to have a look around, the mooring is a 72 hour mooring so we should be OK. Interesting arriving in the branch because prior to coming down here we stopped off at the Elsan point for a bit of housekeeping (empty the toilet cassette!). Whilst stopped three boats passed and went down the branch and I thought that we had missed the opportunity to moor here since the moorings are a bit limited. Luckily they overlooked the first rule of boating, when you see a mooring grab it! They had passed the available mooring to go to the end of the branch to turn around and by the time that they returned some b*gger (me) had nicked it. I’ll just turn around before we leave. I felt it was an important learning experience for them.

One of the important tasks achieved on arrival was a full restock of the beer cellar, Tesco's had Hobgoblin Beer on offer at £1.25 a bottle, too good to miss.

 

Not sure how far we’ll go when we move on from here, probably as far as Whixall I would think.