We left Gas Street, in Brum, in the pouring rain after a rather refreshing alcohol free night (never go boating with doctors on board!!) . The original plan was to head out and go to Worcester down the notorious Tardebigge flight of a mere 56 locks - 36 in one flight. However, Fi has a stinking cold so I started to look at alternatives. In the end we turned on to the top of the Stratford canal and are heading to its junction with the Grand Onion so that we can hopefully moor up in Warwick for the weekend. We've been there before and its really pleasant. Mind you thats 21 locks of the Hatton Flight and a previous 22 on this canal - hang on I thought I was trying to minimise the locks!! Still the BCN challenge was fun although we are not sure we will 'do' Birmingham again, The centre bit is great but getting in an out is a chore both in numbers of locks and in lack of 'ambience' (to be polite).
After that - who knows?? Although I have in mind to go up the Ashby canal, the other side of Coventry which is another dead end but looks really pretty.
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| Gas Street basin, derelict for many years but now fully restored and with more restaurants than I've ever seen in one place before (shame there were no shops!) |
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| More Gas Street with the old and the new |
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| Meanwhile the dog continues to take it all too serioulsy |
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