Well it has been ages since I posted anything. We moved into the Birmingham suburbs and moored at Star City. It is a really good mooring, I can't see any reason why it is designated a 24 hr mooring. There is space for four or five boats and when we arrived there was one other boat. We were naughty and stayed about 40 hours and although the other boat left no other boats moored so we didn't feel guilty. It is an offside pontoon mooring with secure access to Star City carpark which is patrolled 24 hours by security guards and also has CCTV.
On the Tuesday I took the train from Aston into Birmingham to check out the city centre moorings and have a bit of a look round. I had a good look round the markets which are some of the cheapest I have seen but the produce looks good quality. I didn't buy much as we had a trip to Bristol planned on the Friday.
The moorings were remarkably empty so we decided to move into the city on Wednesday. It is quite a long haul into Brum no matter which route you take, in our case we had 24 locks to look forward to. We soon got into a rhythm and by the time we reached the final 13 lock climb up to Cambrian Wharf we were making really good time. We have moored at the St Vincent Street moorings which are 14 day moorings.
On Friday we both took the coach to Bristol to visit our gorgeous new granddaughter, Ray returned to Morgana on Sunday but I'm still doing the doting grandmother act for few more days.
Ray has been busy on the paintwork on Morgana and Merlin as we are now moored with the other side to the towpath, I'm looking forward to seeing improvements when I get back.
Last week's journeys 11.7 miles, 27 locks and 3 tunnels
This year we have travelled 302.2 miles, 285 locks, 6 swing bridges, 13 lift bridges and 5 tunnels
In 2012 we travelled 876.9 miles, 675 locks, 55 swing bridges, 23 lift bridges and 31 tunnels
In 2011 we travelled 461.4 miles, 444 locks, 3 swing bridges, 34 lift bridges and 15 tunnels
During 2010 we travelled 740.3 miles, 642 locks, 53 swing bridges, 4 lift bridges and 25 tunnels
Since Ray retired we have travelled 2380.8 miles, 2046 locks, 117 swing bridges, 74 lift bridges and 76 tunnels
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