Birmingham

 

Here I am Rune

Distance 11.9 miles

Total 5056 Locks  387 Tunnels

Running total mileage 7,678.3 miles

 

So, for our first cruise of the year, we go for our old favourite another cruise into Birmingham. It is more of a ‘shake-down’ cruise to make sure that everything on the boat is still working OK, and since I gave the engine a full service before we left the boat for the winter, it ran like a dream today. I’m always a bit wary over the period that we leave the batteries since we don’t have solar to keep them charged, but they are fully disconnected whilst we are away and don’t seem to have suffered.

We are only in Birmingham until Saturday as tickets have been bought to see Torvill and Dean ice skating tomorrow night before we return to Hawne Basin for a maintenance weekend (of which we will only be part of half of it!).