Hurleston Junction to Nantwich (Shropshire Union Canal)

Here comes John, Sharon & Smugs

Lovely Smuggler

Bye Bye see you again soon

We are moving on to Nantwich today and it is also my birthday.  Kev made me breakfast and I opened my pressies and cards and had phone calls from my Mum and Dad and several text messages and messages left on face book, all very nice.  Our friends John, Sharon and Smuggler have been on the Llangollen canal and are almost at the junction where we are but we thought that we might miss them, but shortly before we were going to leave, they came around the corner from the locks.

Where we had our lunch

They moored up in front of us and came on board for coffee.  It was lovely to see the three of them and to catch up before they go one way on the canal and we go the other. 

We had a nice chat and then it was time for us all to go, so we said our goodbyes and hopefully we will meet up again soon and we went our separate ways.  We chugged on a couple of miles and then were at Nantwich where it was very busy so we moored just before the visitor moorings as they all looked full.

Inside The Cheshire Cat pub

Our Tapas Lunch

We then walked into the town and found a really nice pub called The Cheshire Cat pub which is in an early 17^th Century building. They do tapas so we had that and it was really good.  I also had Panacotta for dessert and that was delicious too.  They did have a Gin Menu although they didn’t have a lot of the gins on it, but I had Tiger Gin which is from Shropshire and although I have had it before it is one of my favourites.  I had a lovely Birthday lunch and we will definately eat at this pub again.

After lunch we did some shopping and then went back to the boat.

We are off to the Nantwich Show tomorrow which is a Country and Cheese show so we walked through the marina and onto the main road to see where the entrance to the show was and it was just across the road so that is handy, not far to walk.  The weather forecast for tomorrow is for some rain but not all day so hopefully they will be right as we are really looking forward to going.

Therefore we are staying here tonight and also tomorrow and on the move again on Thursday.

Moored at Nantwich