Brewood to Bridge 8 (Shropshire Union Canal)

Thursday 11^th and Friday 12^th June

Our Takeaway Breakfast

Yesterday (Thursday) we stayed put in Brewood and had a takeaway breakfast from the local pub, The Bridge Inn, a full English in a box with fried bread for a fiver, it was really good and set us up for the day nicely.  We went for a walk in the afternoon in between the showers and then just chilled out.

Passing Dell

Coming to a Bridge

Lovely Views of Brewood from the Canal

Our new Ship Mate!

Today we are on the move but had to go up to the bakery before we left to get our order. They do afternoon tea to take away so we had ordered one each for this afternoon, they weren’t quite ready when we got there as they are made up fresh so we waited a few minutes. Gemma who runs the Baker’s is great and very friendly so we had a nice chat with her and they have a little mascot who they lend to people to take on their travels with them and return when you are back in Brewood, so we have a new ship mate called Gemma Panda and she is going to travel with us this Summer and share all our adventures!  Apparently she likes a drink, so I shall have to watch her with all our gin!

Harry & Louis watching the Ducks

Lovely Avenue Bridge

We left Brewood mid-morning and set off along the canal. We passed Dell on NB Dodger who was moored just down from us and who is heading back to the G&S and carried on along the canal.

Helicopter \Hovering Overhead

There are lovely views of Brewood church from the canal.  We passed the mooring where Harry and Louis live and they were on the front of the boats watching a family of ducks, we waved to them as we went past as we won’t see them again until we are back up this way September time.

Gemma Pandas is after my gin!!

We went under a few bridges, Bridge 10 which is the lovely balustraded bridge and then we were approaching the moorings by Bridge 8.  There was a helicopter hovering near the canal near some pylons, it said national grid on the side of the helicopter so it looked liked they were checking the pylons.

Afternoon Tea

There was quite a few boats moored here but there was a space for us.  We tied up and Kev washed the roof as where we had been moored in Brewood, it was under trees and the roof was covered in bird poop, the worse we have seen and I cleaned up inside.

This afternoon we had our afternoon tea and really good it was too.  Gemma Panda helped us eat it!

We are staying here now for the weekend and moving on next week when we will finally get to go on another canal so looking forward to that.

Moored at Bridge 8