Back to the Shroppie, and Tony leaves from Nantwich

Willeymoor Lock to Nantwich, Llangollen and Shropshire Union Canals, 12.5 miles 11 locks

A lovely weekend cruising with son Tony, the meal at the Willeymoor Lock Tavern was very nice, and not too expensive either.

We pulled the pins on Saturday morning planning to get to Wrenbury fairly early so that we could find a mooring where the satellite dish could find the dot in the sky.  Well England would be playing Estonia in the afternoon and France that evening!

Once we has arrived I went off to find a couple of geocaches while Tony pulled up one of the chairs and watched the England/Estonia football game

Took Tony out again to the Cotton Arms at Wrenbury close to the Wrenbury Lift Bridge, and my goodness what a super duper meal that was too.. yes I know, we are spoiling him, but we are spoiling ourselves too!

What a great result for England’s teams, more especially the rugby team.  No Problem sure was rocking after the final whistle on Saturday night.  We went out early and came back just before the kick off for that.

So after bacon and eggs on Sunday we set off through Wrenbury Swing Bridge..

Once again, I could not get No Problem to turn right without touching some of the hire fleet of the Alvechurch Narrowboats, who’s 70ft boats were sticking out from the left.. I apologised before I got any were near them, it was obvious I wasn’t going to get away with it.. “Oh don’t worry about it, just watch your own paintwork”.. was the reply from one guy working on the boats

We passed a lot of Challenger Narrowboats during the morning, but by lunch time there was a definite lack of boats around.  Passing the huge Swanley Marina, well nearly passed when cheerily running over came Kay and David from Narrowboat Adagio.  We had met Kay and David a few weeks ago on our way to Llangollen, and again on the way back, now this was the third time!

David is threatening to start a blog having had a look at this one.. well David, just go to this website Blogger.com (Click on that) and sign up, it is really easy to start blogging.. Hopefully I will be able to add a link the new blog on this site!

So it wasn’t long ‘till we left the Llangollen for this year. 

I certainly enjoyed it much more on the way back from Llangollen.  I think that was mainly due to the fact that the return journey was made ‘out of season’, not so many boats about.  But at the Llangollen end it was most beautiful, and well worth the visit.. oh and so was the Mongomery, although I do feel English Nature has taken far too much control over canals that are meant to be for boats!

I walked with Tony to the station at Nantwich this morning before doing a bit of shopping in the town, great weekend Tone!