Summer 2022 Cruise

Day 1

Heading south on the Shroppie, we made an early start and made our way to Audlem locks. When you look back at this summer, can you believe that we actually set off in the rain!

The Historic Boats were on show with lots of volunteer lock keepers around to help us up the locks, so having left Nantwich at 8am, we were at the top of Audlem by 1:30.
If you haven't been through Audlem recently, there is a lovely little supply of cakes, pasties, ice-creams etc available for sale just beside the top lock. Having worked through 15 locks, we felt a pasty each for lunch was well deserved.
We pressed on through Adderley, and then tried to stop for lunch. The edging wasn't going to allow us in, so we continued on toward Market Drayton.
By the time we arrived, things had cleared up and we found a nice mooring on the town moorings. A nice dog walk up to Tyrley locks made for a lovely evening!

Day 1 totals:12 miles and 22 locks

Maybe it's time I restarted this blog, why; because I can.

So, since the last post we actually got to buy our first boat. Having had boats in the family for many year, but not the last 10, we bought our boat during the lockdowns in 2020.

Through much of 2021, we weren't able to make as much use of the boat as we wanted but did manage to complete the 4 Counties ring during our summer holiday.

Summer 2022 saw just the two of us head off on a month long journey which I will document here.
Enjoy!