OUR JOURNEY FROM OXFORD TO LLANGOLLEN WHERE WE SHALL SPEND THE WINTER
September 24th--28th The Journey Begins
Goodbye to the Luxury of Operated Locks---Through Duke's Cut---On to The Oxford Canal---The Canal Appears to Come to a Sudden Stop, and we do our Good Deed for the Day, but Trev Nearly Falls in---The First Fire of the Autumn---Through Banbury---Extra Passengers on Board
September 29th--October 5th Back to our Roots
Travelling with Friends--An Amazing Trip--Beautiful Warwickshire Countryside--Thoughtless Mooring--To the Dentist--What Happens About the Doctor, Dentist, etc.--Back to Braunston at Last--Our Favourite Pub--On up The North Oxford canal--We Meet Jen & Bill-again!
October 6th--12th We Cover Quite a Bit of Ground and Meet More Old Friends
The Gurkha Restaurant--On to The Coventry Canal--Some Beautiful Scenery--A Rude Boater--Some Nice Fishermen--An Obnoxious Fisherman--In to Staffordshire--Fradley Junction--Great Haywood Junction--More Visitors
October 13th--19th We move on Apace
If only I had a field!--We meet relations--Trev Does Some Very Useful Jobs--Steaming Fences--Those Relations Again--Music at the Shroppie Fly--We Reach Nantwich
October 20th--26th We Reach our Goal
A Train Trip--Perhaps we Should Give up Eating Out--Bottom Blacking--Awful Weather--Liberty Belle is Grounded--We Can't Shut the Lock Gates--Rain, Rain, Rain, and Wind--We Reach Grindley Brook at Last--More Friends Come to See Us
October 27th--Nov. 2nd
Another Trip to the Dentist--We travel on to Llangollen--Beautiful Moorings--Lovely Autumn Colours--We Reach the End of the Llangollen Canal
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