Nantwich

Here I am Rune

Distance 4.7 miles

Total 4491 Locks  282 Tunnels

Running total mileage 6,706.7 miles

Have to say the weather forecasting is becoming more and more inaccurate. The forecast for this morning was for rain clearing a bit by midday, a bit of a shower at lunchtime and then clearing, it was nothing like that! I togged up in wet gear to cruise to Nantwich and there was barely a drop of rain. It then started to rain at about 12.30pm when I moored up at Nantwich Canal Centre to take on fuel and continued to rain whilst I fuelled up (always good to get rain in your diesel…not). Had lunch and it stopped raining then walked into town to post some stuff and have a swim, the rain then started and continued pretty much throughout my swim (the brine pool is outdoor). Funnily enough whem swimming front crawl you don’t actually see what the weather is really doing, it was only when I took a break and swum sidestroke that I realised it was blowing a gale and streaming down with rain, so I went back to front crawl.

We’ll be here until Saturday morning, the moorings here are now 48 hour all year, which is a bit of a shame. This was where we used to leave the boat occasionally during the winter months to go elsewhere for a week or so.

 

Cholmondeston

Here I am Rune

Distance 3.1 miles

Total 4491 Locks  282 Tunnels

Running total mileage 6,702 miles

We got as far as the moorings above Cholmondeston Lock and decided to call it a day, so a bit of a lightweight day today. It gives us the option when we get to Nantwich to stay until Saturday morning if we don’t get there until tomorrow. It was a slow day anyway today since there was two boats ahead of us at Minshull Lock and 3 boats ahead of us at Cholmondeston Lock so both of them took about 40 minutes to get through. The Cholmondeston Lock is very pleasant overlooking a field of horses to keep us entertained.

Tomorrow into Nantwich and possibly a swim in their brine pool.

 

Church Minshull

Here I am Rune

Distance 5.2 miles

Total 4489 Locks  282 Tunnels

Running total mileage 6,698.9 miles

A bit of a wet trip along the Middlewich Branch today, but we reached the mooring that I was aiming for, a rural mooring near to Church Minshull. We set off quite late for us, about midday, since we had to get some shopping before we left Middlewich. The only lock that we went through today, Stanthorne lock, was also very slow to both fill and empty so we were there for quite a while as there was a boat in front of us.

The plan now is to carry on to Nantwich tomorrow, weather permitting.