Birthday week

Another blog posted on a Monday (rather than Sunday), this time our excuse is Nic’s birthday weekend. 

On Monday (last week), we cruised towards Whitchurch, mooring a couple of bridges outside the town. 

Tuesday morning, we cruised down the Whitchurch branch of the Llangollen canal to get close(ish) to an Aldi.  The branch is only about 200 yrds long! The Whitchurch branch was busy and we were lucky to get a mooring. After shopping we headed out of the Llangollen canal, 2 lift bridges and 10 locks! we moored in Nantwich back on the Shropshire Union canal. 

On Wednesday morning, Nic visited the local laundrette, “what fun!” then we had an easy cruise down to Audlem including the first couple of locks in the flight of 15 locks. as it was Nic’s birthday week we started celebrating with dinner at The Lord Combermere pub in Audlem, enjoying a really nice meal and a couple of drinks! On the walk back to the Boat we found a tenner!

Thursday, we have to complete the rest of the flight of locks, but were rewarded with a stall at the top lock selling all manner of cakes and pies, the Chocolate Brownie was fab.  We then had to do another flight of 5 locks.

On Friday we made it to Market Drayton, a nice little town with old half-timbered buildings. After a walk round there was time to sit in the sun,  and listen to Wimbledon, until the weather broke in the evening.

On Saturday, following a recommendation we cruised in the rain, with another 5 locks to the Wharf inn at Goldstone for lunch, including the Ice cream Sundae (see photos below) the lunch was worth cruising in the rain!

Sunday had a lazy day did not cruise anywhere, managed a lovely walk to Cheswardine, before the heavens opened with an amazing storm, we were so glad that we were not cruising!

	This Week	Total
Locks	46	246
Miles Cruised (approx.)	33	411