Audlem

 

Here I am Rune

Distance 5.5 miles 

Total 5295 Locks  432 Tunnels

Running total mileage 7,994.4miles

 

Well I achieved all that I wanted in Nantwich, a visit to the chandlery to get a new seal for the diesel tank, a new air release valve for the Thetford Cassette and some more paint. Weekend shopping duly collected and a dip in their brine pool, with a quick trip on the bus to Chester thrown in for free.

We have cruised on to the outskirts of Audlem although when I told a guy I was talking to in Nantwich that we were going on to Audlem he replied,”Oh, are you going to the festival?” unfortunately I hadn’t realised that there was a festival on, which means that most of the moorings are going to be taken. We’ve stopped about half a mile short of Audlem so that we have a mooring for the night without having to go through all of the locks, it’ll just mean we’ll have a bit more work to do tomorrow.

Rather annoyingly there is almost no internet here so I’ll try and update the blog but cannot link to the Google map location because there isn’t enough bandwith to download any Google maps. I’m not even sure that this blog will update with the limited stuff I’ve put on it.

Nantwich

 

Here I am Rune

Distance 2.0 miles 

Total 5293 Locks  432 Tunnels

Running total mileage 7,988.9miles

 

Today was probably the shortest cruise of this trip, just 2 miles and no locks. The reason being that we needed to get to Nantwich for a variety of reasons, the weekend shopping, a couple of bits for the boat from the chandlery and the usual ‘domesticky’ stuff of dumping our rubbish/recycling, filling with water and emptying the toilet cassettes.

I was most impressed with the service from the chandlery, not only did they have the seal for my diesel filler cap (in several different sizes) but also had a replacement for the broken air release valve on the toilet cassette, something that I thought I was going to have to wait until I got back to my postal address and order online for delivery.

The current plan is to stay here until Sunday (maximum stay on moorings 48 hours) to give a chance to have another look around Nantwich (a thriving town) and take a dip in their brine swimming pool tomorrow.

Hurleston

 

Here I am Rune

Distance 11.0 miles 

Total 5293 Locks  432 Tunnels

Running total mileage 7,986.9miles

 

Although 11 miles, an easy day cruise since there were only 2 locks. A bit more in the way of boat movements along the Middlewich Arm, but still not what one might call busy. The bridge of ‘concern’, Bridge 8 Nanney’s Bridge, had people working on it but no sing of the navigation itself being, nor any sign that it had been. We pressed on a short way beyond it just to be sure however!

Not much further into Nantwich, about 2 miles according to my reckoning, so less than an hour’s cruise tomorrow and then hopefully moored there until Sunday.