Summer starts early for Liberty Belle and her Motley Crew!
OUR WEEKLY LOG
March 4th--10th The Journey Begins
Winter Resume--We Leave the Marina--A Very Short Trip--At Last, the Whispergen is Repaired-A Good Long Cruise--Once More into the Breach--Car and Camping Trailer For Sale!
March 11th--17th The Start of our Trip to Welford
On to Llangollen--Over the Pontywhatsit--So Many Lambs--Free Electricity--The Hire Boats End Their Winter Hibernation--A Very Cold Job--A Flat Iron--Help at the Locks--Almost at the End of The Golly,,,Quelle Domage!
March 18th--24th To Ellesmere Port
We leave the Llangollen Canal--Up The Shroppie--Beeston Castle--Gloomy Staircase Locks at Chester--We reach Ellesmere Port and Nearly go on to the Manchester Ship Canal by Mistake!--We Turn at Last for the South--We arrive at Nantwich
March 25th--31st From Nantwich to Birmingham
The Audlem Flight (with help), The Adderley Flight--Visitors--Busy canals--Nowhere to Moor--A Two Hour Queue--More Relations--We Wait for the Post--Our Second Anniversary of Living on the Boat--We get Ready for the White Knuckle Ride--We Arrive in Birmingham Sooner Than Expected
April 1st--7th Birmingham to Wootton Wawen
Moored up in Birmingham City Centre--Back to Back--A Bit of a History Lesson--We Leave Birmingham--On to the Stratford Canal--Tricky Locks--A Train Trip for Trev--On Down the Stratford
April 8th--14th Wootton Wawen to Stratford-on-Avon
The Ad. Which Didn't Appear--We Sell the Car--Hidcote Gardens--Shelagh Wants to go Through the Locks--Another Puncture--Lots of Visitors--I Realign the Chimney--Stuck in Lock 26--Back on the Grand Union
April 15th--21st Back to Base
No new Photographs, Quelle Domage--A Man on the Loo!--The Hatton Flight, With a Little Help From Our Friends--No Room at the Cape--A French Market--We Still Can't Sell the Camping Trailer--Buffing up the Boat--Lovely Moorings--Dreadful Weather--We Meet up with Old Friends
April 22nd--28th The Bottom Blacking
We Meet the Canopy Fitters--Excessive Charges--We Catch up With Old Friends--Beautiful Leicester--In to the Dry Dock--The work Begins--We Get Bored, But the Boat Looks Lovely!--The Job is Done
April 29th--May 5th On Up the Leicester Branch
A Weekend in The Derbyshire Dales--Foxton Locks and Inclined Plane--Market Harborough
May 6th--12th Back Down the Leicester Branch
We Continue Northwards on the Leicester Branch--Friends Visit--Awful Weather--A Fruitless Trip to the Pump Out Station--We Turn Round--Back up the Foxton Flight--The Weather Improves--The Land is Bursting with Goodness
May 13th--18th Off to the Nene at last!
Friends for the Weekend--A Compliment from a Lock Keeper--A Lazy Weekend--We Sell the Car--A Terrible Bang--A Lucky Meeting--I get Too Smart for my Own Good!--Pride Comes Before a Fall--We Meet Friends All Too Briefly--Down the Northampton Arm--On to the Nene
May 19th--25th Along the Nene
A Broken Night--Lots of Difficult Locks--Another Visitor--This isn't Like the Canals!--Stair Rods--Neighbours....--Mud--Ace Steering--Very Low Bridges, or Very High Water--We Reach Oundle
May 26th--June 2nd We Leave the Nene and join the Middle Level
A Visit to Warwick--The Postman Calls Again--Off to Fotheringhay--A Couple of Stories--The End of The Nene For Us--Two Nights in Peterborough--A Missed Turn and We Find Ourselves on the Way to The Wash!--On to The Middle Level--It's Jolly Flat--This Bend isn't all it's Been Made Out to be!--Safe Mooring
June 3rd--9th All the Way to Cambridge
What? No Asparagus?--Through Salter's Lode Lock--Out on to the Tidal Ouse--Denver Sluice--What a View--We Reach Ely--Friends Visit--Another Liberty Belle--Cambridge and Back
June 10th--16th We Go to Suffolk for the Weekend, and Reach St. Ives
I Barbecue my Jumper--We Go to Suffolk for the Weekend--The House in the Clouds--The Under the Pier Show--The Village Under the Sea--Back to the Boat--Where's the Seal?--We Annoy a Tupperware Boater--We Reach St. Ives
June 17th--23rd All the Way to Bedford
On Along the Ouse--It Gets Very Hot--A Friend Comes to Stay--We Reach Our Goal--The Start of the Long Haul Back to Northampton--Trev Goes Swimming
June 24th--30th Back through Denver
The Heavens Open--But the Night Club Shuts!--We see the Seal--We meet up with Friends--We Reach Ely--A Train Trip to Stratford-upon-Avon--We Arrive at Denver--Back Down the Tidal Ouse--Where's the Lock?--Trev Does a Magnificent Piece of Steering--We Sit in the Lock for Three Hours--The Gates are Winched Open--Back On the Middle Level
July 1st--7th Along the Middle Level and Back on to the Nene
We Make Good Progress--Through Stanground Lock and Peterborough--Neighbours From Hell?--The Boat Gets Washed--Will the Wind Ever Stop?--We Moor up at Oundle
July 8th--11th The End of The Nene
The Wind Drops at last--We Revisit the Cock Inn-It's Awfully Weedy--We Pass Rushden & Diamonds--Gipsy Ponies Get in the Way--We Get Close to Northampton--The Northampton Washlands--A Mega Shop--Back on the Canals at Last!
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