Saturday31 May - We stayed put again today, it was a beautiful sunny day, so Kev did some painting, then we went for a walk down the canal to Bridge 7, went up on the bridge and walked up a concrete path which seemed to go on and on, so walked for a while, then headed back to the canal, and look what we passed, now thats my kind of farm!!
Just chilled out for the rest of the day, heading off tomorrow.
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| Our Visitors |
It was a lovely sunny day, just as well as we are chugging off today
and for all of two miles to a nice place called Brewood, so we set off, it had
been a lovely place where we had moored for the last couple of days, in the
middle of nowhere, you could just hear the birds singing and we had a family of
ducks visit us every day, but time to move on.
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| Mooring at Brewood |
Through the narrow bit and on up the canal, under Bridge10 which is a
really lovely bridge with a huge semi-circle balustrade around it and on to
Brewood and moored up. Wow what a long
way we have gone today, all 2 miles of it, we need a rest now!!
Went up the village, it’s a nice village with a few shops and a couple
of restaurants. Had a walk around, got
a few provisions and had a drink in The Lion Hotel, had a look at the menu and
it looks really nice, so we are going to go there tomorrow for lunch.
Walked back to the canal and went in the The Bridge Inn, the pub just
off the canal and had a drink and some lunch, really nice baguettes, I had hot
pork and Kev had chicken. We were sat
outside and we heard a toot toot coming from the canal, had a look and it was The
President and Kildare coming up the canal, what a sight, and you don’t often
see them chugging along, so it was quite a treat. President is a steam narrow boat, really old
and Kildare is an unpowered butty which President pulls.
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| The President & Kildare |
Went back to the boat and just chilled out. Staying here tomorrow as well, then chugging
off up to Wheaton Ashton a few miles up the canal on Tuesday.
What lovely pictures!
ReplyDeleteThey are great. Sounds like you are having a lovely time, and finding new places.
Guess you are logging them all for future references.
Also finding some nice places to eat.
Enjoy.
lol Mave and Dad xx
When we went under that pretty balustraded bridge last year, we found a broken down narrow boat and John lent the owner some spanners. We went on and moored up at Brewood (it's pronounced Brood isn't it?) and walked into the village, really nice as you say. We had a lovely pie lunch in The Bridge, which had new owners and was very dog-friendly. It was meant to be a quick stop, but the narrowboat owner came in and put drinks behind the bar, so it turned into a lengthy lunch!
ReplyDeleteThe President and butty are a great sight ... unless you meet them coming towards you at a lock. They take ages to get The President through, with the butty lined up ready, behind the lock, then you have to wait while they turn the lock back round and haul the butty through.
ReplyDeleteOf course, now you are boaters of leisure, delays like this wouldn't worry you!