We are moving on today and unfortunately the forecast is not
too good for today. We started off in
the dry but we did have a few showers on the way, but nothing very much, lucky
for Kev as he was steering and I was inside!
It was very breezy though, the wind was quite gusty at times.
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| Big Willow Trees at Christleton |
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| Long Line of Boats |
We chugged on along the canal leaving Christleton behind us
and soon came to a long line of moored boats, it seems to go on forever, it must
be over a mile and you should slow down when going by moored boats. Kev did slow down but not as slow as he
normally would as the wind was very strong and he didn’t want to be blown into
them.
We went on for a few miles and then came to the moorings
near the Shady Oak pub at Tarporley and moored up there with a nice view of
Beeston Castle.
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| Nice View of Beeston Castle |
We had lunch then went out for a walk as it was still dry
but the rain clouds were building. We
walked up to Wharton’s lock and sat for a bit in the sunshine, then walked back
down the towpath and went into the Shady Oak pub.
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| The Shady Oak pub |
They have a nice selection of gins, about 10 in total and so
we tried a couple each, I had Brooklyn gin from New York and Bulldog (also
American) and Kev had Thomas Daking from Manchester and London No. 1. They were all really nice and can add them to
our list. We did sit outside but then it
started to rain so we went inside. It is
a nice pub and the staff were friendly.
We walked back to the boat and just after it poured with
rain, so how lucky was that.
We are staying here tonight and tomorrow we are off to
Beeston Castle which is not far away so looking forward to that and lets hope
the sun is shining!
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| Moored near the Shady Oak at Tarporley |
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