This is our planned trip up the Llangollen in June. We’re going to do the Montgomery canal again as they’ve just re-opened a new section to navigation Turn Round Here : Ellesmere Town Wharf Turn Round Here : Llangollen Basin Turn Round Here : Crickheath Wharf Winding Hole Start / Finish : Ladybird Moorings Overnight […]
Turn Round Here : Calf Heath Bridge No 77 Start / Finish : Ladybird Moorings Overnight at : Shushions Bridge No 21 Overnight at : The Anchor Inn (Cross Green) Overnight at : Shebdon Visitor Moorings Starting at Ladybird Moorings and finishing at Ladybird Moorings with overnight stops at : Shushions Bridge No 21, The […]
From Ladybird Moorings to Hoolgrave Bridge No 11, a distance of 19 miles, 4 flg and 24 locks. After an easy drive up on Thursday night followed by a wander round Market Drayton which ended up with us all soaked to the skin in a rather unexpected and sudden rainstorm we made a relatively early […]
Mintball has had an inverter since she was launched. The original one was a 70-100 Watt one from Maplin which was good enough to power things like dad’s shaver. Then we replaced that with a 300W UPS which worked well but was a bit too big. We then went to a 700 watt one and […]
Progress, all be it quite slow progress, is being made on turning the old typewritten logs into logs on here. There have been a lot of problems with scanning/OCR but we’ve now got it to a point that the majority of text is usable. Also we need to read through each log closely to look […]
The first two logs from our early canal holidays are now up and on-line. They’re pretty minimal with not a lot of detail and no photos- although I’m hoping to find some contemporary photos to add to them. I’m going to add some more logs in the next week or so, I just need to […]
Clearing out our parents house after our mothers death we have collected together all the “canal logs” that she kept, dating right back to our first trip on a boat from Anderton Marina : we were going to go up the Llangollen but we found out when we’d already headed off in that direction that […]
This is the planned route but it may well change closer to the time, or even during the holiday as the timing are very easy and we know we’ll be able to do a lot more than this during the two weeks. Turn Round Here : Grocer\’s Wharf Turn Round Here : Tarleton Boat Yard […]