Curdworth 11 Locks & Meeting Many Meetings Again !!

Thursday morning and we had the 11 locks at Curdworth to do, these are quite nice locks to do and we made good progress but most of the locks were against us but as the sun was shining it was a good day to be doing the locks. We moored at the bottom of Curdworth Locks by the water park. We moored at this spot on the way up to Birmingham and a very pleasant mooring it  is..

Friday morning and we woke to a lovely misty morning, we untied and headed towards Fazeley as we need to top up with water and get a few provisions. So after a beautiful cruise up to Fazeley and whilst the water tank was filling Sharon done a quick shop. When filling with water N/B Destiny passed with John & Nev on so a quick chat with them. When Sharon got back we moved on and passed N/B Many Meetings with Robin & Marion but no one was on board. After doing the 2 locks at Glascote we continued on in lovely sunny weather. We had planned to moor in Polesworth for the evening but decide to cruise on and found a lovely mooring for the evening. Sometime later in the evening Many Meetings joined us and we had a catch up with them. We last saw them on the Leeds & Liverpool canal which seems a long while ago.

Misty Start  

We Were Then Joined By

Nice And Twisty Canal

Saturday morning and another lovely morning we headed off to do the 11 locks at Atherstone, we left a bit late hoping that we would have a clear passage through the locks WRONG we were in a queue again but made steady progress through the locks. Atherstone seems a nice place but we didn't have time to stop other than to get a newspaper. We cruised on and found some nice moorings so moored for the evening near bridge 28.

Sunday and again we woke to lovely sunny weather, being Sunday we had a cup of tea in bed and read some of the paper we had brought yesterday. It’s a hard life at times !!!. We set off around 10.30m for Hawksbury Junction where we plan to moor for this evening. The cruise through Nuneaton was as we had expected the canal was rather full of rubbish so slow ahead for a short while. Once through Nuneaton the countryside is lovely and we had a good cruise up to Hawksbury Junction for the evening.

Are Morning View

And Are Evening View

We Don't Want The Stig On A Narrowboat Although At Times I think He Has Passed Us whilst We have Been Moored !!!.

Time Travelled Thursday 3.5 Hrs Distance 4 Miles 11 Locks

Time Travelled Friday 4.5 Hrs Distance 9 Miles 2 Locks

Time Travelled Saturday 5 Hrs Distance 6 Miles 11 Locks

Time Travelled Sunday 3 Hrs Distance 7 Miles

Total Distance Travelled 891. Miles 

207 Locks (Broad ) 401 single locks and 18 tunnel's, 10 Massive Lock

Total Tunnel length 10707 yards   
Total Time 469.5 hours  

We Are Loving It so Much