We are almost bidding the Llangollen canal a very fond farewell after being on it for the last 6 weeks!!! Since our friends left us on Monday we cleaned up, stocked up and got cruising despite very windy and often wet weather. We are on a mission to get to Kidsgrove by the middle of…
We arrived back on Celtic Maid in Chirk Marina, on 28th April after our trip to London for Bob’s eye surgery.After making sure we had the supplies we needed in Ellesmere we ventured down the Montgomery Canal for a bit of a rest and to get some cleaning up done on Celtic Maid. We had…
A significant and somewhat challenging component of our adventure has been dealing with the ramifications of Bob contracting the shingles virus in his right eye some 3 months before our scheduled departure from Australia in November 2013. Despite having a diagnosis and treatment started in Australia, and being warned that this was likely to be…
It is Thursday afternoon on a very mild and sunny day, and we have travelled yet again over the Chirk aqueduct and through the Chirk tunnel to take up our temporary moorings in Chirk Marina so that we can go to London for Bob’s eye surgery knowing our Celtic Maid is safe. We left our…
Several of our life ambitions have been achieved over the last few weeks. We visited Cornwall and celebrated our friends’ birthdays with their family and friends, met new/old friends, and travelled along the Llangollen Canal and Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. And we finally have a date for the first operation on Bob’s eye to control the pressure on…
We have been travelling on and off with Chris and Jim Smith and their narrowboat “Sylph” since meeting them by chance at Thrupp on the Oxford Canal in July 2014. They are such very good company and we have certainly not yet run out of stories to tell, experiences to share, opinions to broadcast and…