When
we got up the sun was shining and it was another lovely dry day. We had breakfast then set off back along the
canal to the junction at Great Haywood.
The canal was busy today.
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| Coming to a Bridge |
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| Going Over the Aqueduct |
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| Coming to the Junction |
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| Haywood Lock |
We
went under a couple of bridges and over the aqueduct and was just coming to the
junction when a boat turned in so we waited for them. They said they were reversing into the hire
place that was just there but then they seemed to stop. The lady said the engine had conked out and
the man on the back of the boat just stood there while the poor lady climbed on
one of the hire boats and struggled to pull the boat in while he just watched,
she did it eventually no thanks to him and we passed them and turned right onto
the Trent & Mersey canal.
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| Captain & Crew in the Lock |
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| The Captain! |
All
the moorings above the lock were full so
we went on to Haywood lock. There was a
boat coming up so I helped them through and then it was our turn. This is a shallow lock so doesn't take long
to go through and a boat came behind us so the lady came to help and there was
also a boat waiting to come up.
We
went under the footbridge and moored up with lovely views of Shugborough Hall
and in a nice sunny spot.
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| Sitting in the Sun |
We
had lunch then went for a walk up to the junction and sat on a bench for a bit watching
the world go by. We then walked over to
the farm shop and as it was such a warm sunny afternoon we had an ice cream,
they sell Snugburys ice cream which is delicious and they had my favourite
flavour salted caramel. We sat on a
bench to eat them and shared them with Harry, he likes ice cream as well.
We
then walked back down the towpath, across Essex Bridge and had a walk around
the Shugborough Estate then back to the boat.
We
are staying here tonight then moving on a few miles to Wolseley Bridge
tomorrow.
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| Moored at Great Haywood |
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