Pushing Weed
A rare sunny morning on the Leeds & Liverpool This year we have discovered the seven wonders of the canal boating world, four of which we have visited this “summer”. Though I don’t think we can really call it a summer. There are few days we have not had a coal fire in the evening and my shorts have barely seen the light of day. Lucky for Mum, we had pretty good weather when she joined us for the first of the wonders, and even managed dinner outside - by way of contrast, during our first summer on board, we did not use the breakfast bar, except for breakfast! Her trips seem to extend by a day each year(!)and for her four day trip this year, we chose to cross the Pontcysyllte aqueduct, heading to Llangollen . Crossing the Pontcysyllte Aquaduct It is as impressive as it looks in the pictures, and quite freaky when you are just 6 inches of metal away from the edge and a very long drop. The Llangollen canal is extremely pretty but fairly busy with hire boats and so na...