Friday 1 August 2014

A rainy trip to Middlewich

The rain started soon after we got up.  By 10am it was still raining, but the forecast was worse for tomorrow.  So what to do?  Stay where we were for two days with no shops or pubs within easy walking distance and our stores running low?  Or brave the weather and make for Middlewich some 3 hours away?  Eventually we chose the latter.  Fortunately there were no locks until the Big Lock at Middlewich and no swing bridges or anything else which would force us to get off the boat.  So after warming the engine and undoing the ropes we were on our way.

I drove whilst Denise stayed below for the first 1.5 hours.  It wasnt too uncomfortable as the rain was relatively light, there was no wind, and our waterproofs are very effective.  There were a fair number of boats on the move, many of them being hirers needing to get back to base for the weekend. Denise drove for the second half of the journey and by 1pm we were moored in Middlewich, soon afterward the rain had stopped.  We are assuming that we wont move tomorrow.

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