Boats, Boats, Boats…. lots of them and lots of them actually on the move for a change. One last short visit to the Trent and more locks as Mintball continues up the Trent Valley and stops for the night only a hundred or so yards from a famous murderer’s residence.
Shardlow to Burton doesn’t take that long by road but the big locks make it feel like a long long day by canal. Oddly enough its almost the same distance by road as it is by canal.
A moderately easy day sees the back of the Trent (for now) and also to Nottingham as Mintball returns to the regular canal network
Another day on the Trent going through nowhere – with only a few locks and so much water it can actually be remarkably boring
Doing the Tidal Trent within a few days of last doing it is rather like being forced to watch a dull movie twice. But unlike a dull movie you can’t walk out half way through
It’s an easy trip from Saxilby to Lincoln and there are plenty of moorings if you know where to look, and Steep Hill doesn’t need to be as scary as it’s name suggests.
A lot of distance with relatively little to see takes Kathy and Steve out on to the tideway and then onto some Roman canal before stopping for the night in a village with a Viking history.
After an Easter Weekend experience in Nottingham Kathy and Steve barely give it the time of day, stopping only to do a food shop before escaping from the city as fast as they can. only to find that the opening hours on the locks really aren’t what you’d expect for high summer.
Kathy and Steve totally fail to get in a pickle, or go for a Burton before passing by a little bit of Ukraine, ending up for the night at somewhere that sounds like it could be a public school but isn’t
Another fine sunny day sees Kathy and Steve make their way through mostly open countryside, past a collection of toilets before getting up close and intimate with the A38 for a short while.