Friends Aboard NB Tacet: Family & Visitors Then Beeston castle

We were up bright and early Saturday and got on with tidying Tacet for our visitors.
At 3.00 PM Dawn and her partner Peter came walking down the towpath looking for us. We first met Dawn at the Fairport Convention Festival which is held in August in Cropredy and if you have not been to it we would recommend it,3 days of great Music and very family orientated.

Dawn and Peter are looking to buy a narrow-boat soon and wanted to see what Tacet was like. they had a look around and a drink but had to leave as they were going back to Dawn's mum's who lives in Bunbury right near the canal. So after getting them to sign the guest book we said our goodbye's.
We waited for our next visitors to arrive which was our youngest son Sam and his girlfriend Rachel, they are spending a the bank holiday weekend with us. It was lovely to see them both.

Saturday we had a meal at The Cheshire cat which was a bit of a let down because they had been so busy that day they had run out of a lot of things on the menu. As we had been messed about with our order the waitress arranged that we would not have to pay for any of the desserts which were very nice indeed.

Sam & Rachel planned to visit Birmingham on the way back to Ipswich and have lunch at Jimmy Spices all you can eat buffet, we had eaten there when we were in Birmingham towards the start of our adventure.
So we said goodbye to then both and it was a rather sad moment as they drove off.

We readied Tacet and left at 11.30 winding at the winding hole by bridge 121 and then heading back towards Bates Mill Bridge 109.

We passed a cricket match on the way.

We moored in nearly the same spot as we had on the way up and I decided to walk up to Beeston castle well ruins really. Well its a long walk up but absolutely worth it.
It is managed by English Heritage the photos don't do the views justices and apparently you can see 8 different counties from there.including the Welsh mountains.