2 weeks 3 waterways and great company 13/9/15
As the title says – we have been active for two weeks since the last post, explored three waterways – Bridgewater Canal, Trent and Mersey Canal and River Weaver – and welcomed cousins, Julie and Phil on board for a week’s cruising!!! So from being pretty slow on it last update our time suddenly got…
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Lymm 30/8/15
My, we are sure slowing down. I know the last blog was on Tuesday and it has been 5 days but we have only moved 3 miles – how slack!!!! Actually this is a Bank Holiday weekend (public holidays in Australia) and we decided to relocate to near Lymm (lovely little village) and find a…
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Greater Manchester and beyond 25/8/15
After ten very busy days, we are finally moored enjoying our Sunday ritual on a Tuesday on a lovely rural mooring at Dunham Town. The last week has had children, birthday, awful and fantastic weather, a reunion with friends and being pleasantly surprised at the run through Manchester. In the last update we were moored…
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Back to Heaton’s Bridge 16/8/15
We spent our last three days in Liverpool very productively. Bron and her personal shopper Julia went in search of wedding outfits for the two celebrations we will attend on our visit to Australia earlier next year and successfully achieved our aim!! And a bit more as Julia accidentally made a couple of purchases of…
DetailsLiverpool 9/8/15
We are still in Liverpool enjoying our “holiday”!!!! And despite very variable weather, have managed to get out and about doing the sightseeing touristy thing – kind of enjoying it. All of this fun and games took place once we had broken the back of our pressing maintenance jobs on Celtic Maid. With a little…
DetailsLiverpool 2/8/15
Our main goal this week was to get into Liverpool and we made it!!!! Despite the weather (it is more like a Renmark winter at the moment than an English summer!! or maybe they are the same thing?????), the logistics (of getting fuel, offloading waste etc) and those pesky swing bridges, we finally arrived Tuesday…
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