Yesterday I was feeling very pleased with having reached our 1000 miles. However, my brother has pointed out that this equates to 1.9 miles per day since we started our travels! I'm still pleased with the 1000 miles anyway and we have had breakdowns, being frozen in, me working for nearly four months and most recently a two week break to look after animals. I'm sure he will be happy to know we managed a lot more than 1.9 miles today.
After a night of rain we bid farewell to the Shroppie this morning in sunshine and started heading down the Staffs and Worcester. There was a fair amount of traffic and we did have a few delays at locks, most notably at the Bratch Locks where we had to wait for three boats to come up before we could head down. The weather was kind to us and we had a dry day of cruising eventually mooring below Greensforge Lock for the night, where we found some mirabelle plum trees. Most of the fruit wasn't quite ripe but I managed to gather about three pounds of ripe fruit before the heavens opened.
Today's journey 11.1 miles and 17 locks
So far this year we have travelled 285.8 miles, 197 locks, 31 lift bridges and 7 tunnels
Since Ray retired we have travelled 1021.2 miles, 842 locks, 55 swing bridges, 35 lift bridges and 32 tunnels
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