Boating for 23 years now

Not my biggest boast, that would be being married to Rachel for over 40 years followed by riding motorbikes for 47 years.

Anyhow I got some photo reminders of our first narrowboat holiday back in October 2002. In fact we picked the boat up at Wrenbury Mill on the 21st October. it was a lovely if sometimes wet introduction. The two lads were constantly buggering about standing on the roof, up and down the gunnels and all over the locks like monkeys ! How were were able to make progress who knows. It can't have been so bad as we hired again, then shares in a boat then three of our own boats..... a tidy boating pedigree.

Some photos. If I recall correctly we got as far as winding a Frankton Junction - where the Montgomary joins the Llangollen canal a trip of 45 miles and 20 locks there and back.  

Very happy memories and apart from looking a lot younger seemed very happy doing this trip.

We didn't make the aqueduct but on dropping the boat off drove there to have a look.... it was September 2020 when we finally got to take a boat over the canal in the sky !