Heading south, again.

We moved up to Cassiobury Park, stopped there until Friday, then headed south again.

The news on Tring Summit is that it should be open again, with restricted hours, from March 26th, so we are planning to head down towards Brentford, maybe take a trip in on the Paddington Arm or maybe investigate the notoriously shallow Slough Arm. We haven't really decided yet. We plan on being back at Cassiobury by about the 21st so we can travel up to Cowroast for the 26th. Hopefully we can then start heading for Leeds at last.

We travelled down to Batchworth yesterday, stocked up at Tesco this morning and then carried on to above Coppermill Lock. The weather forecast for the next couple of days is lousy, but we do need the rain. It will probably be Tuesday before we carry on our way.

We want to go to Uxbridge Boat Centre to see if they can get us a new grate for our fire as after two years of saying we must get a new one ours eventually broke. We managed to turn it round so that the damaged part is at the front so we can still build a fire at the back! They are closed on Mondays so not moving until Tuesday isn't a problem.


Since my last post we have travelled 5.7 miles and 6 locks

So far this year we have travelled 13.1 miles and 16 locks

In 2011 we travelled 461.4 miles, 444 locks, 3 swing bridges, 34 lift bridges and 15 tunnels

In 2010 we travelled 740.3 miles, 642 locks, 53 swing bridges, 4 lift bridges and 25 tunnels

Since Ray retired we have travelled 1214.8 miles, 1102 locks, 56 swing bridges, 38 lift bridges and 40 tunnels