Visitors !

We have moved around 400 yards down the canal today, so have managed to stay within our target of travelling at our ‘days per mile’ target.

However …… we have had our first visitors today since setting off !  Martyn and Vanessa travelled over from just outside Burton-upon-Trent to spend the day with us, and help move the boat up through another lock.  We had a great day with them.  Martyn is a history teacher and hopefully he’ll be able to pass on a bit more canal history to his pupils when talking about the Industrial Revolution – without the canals there may well have not been a revolution in our industrial development which in turn put the ‘Great’ into Great Britain.

We had a substantial lunch in the Hartley Arms, and good value. It’s some eight or nine years since Deb and I visited the pub – at that time we had Kangaroo Burgers. Apparently they’re not serving them anymore – oh well, life moves on.