Curry, wine and a late night

Yesterday we carried on down through Grindley Brook and onwards reaching Willeymoor Lock in the early afternoon. It took us over three hours to get down through the six locks, mainly due to the queue of boats waiting for passage but we did stop after the fifth lock to get cheap diesel from the Shell garage. It is at least 10p cheaper than any of the boatyards and 30.5p cheaper than the marina at Ellesmere.There is the inconvenience of lugging it back to the boat in cans rather than dispensing straight from the pump but on 80 litres the saving makes it worthwhile.

Once we were at Willeymoor we rang Barry and Alex as they had invited us for a meal. They collected us late afternoon and then it was back to their place for nice evening of beer, curry, wine and a late night chatting and catching up. I went to bed around midnight but Ray didn't make it to bed until about two.

After a lie-in this morning we got back to the boat early afternoon but neither of us felt like doing much so we stayed here and will move on tomorrow.

Yesterday's journey 2.5 miles and 7 locks

So far this year we have travelled 219.9 miles, 140 locks, 29 lift bridges and 6 tunnels

Since Ray retired we have travelled 958.3 miles, 785 locks, 55 swing bridges, 33 lift bridges and 31 tunnels