Long day, we left Wrenbury this morning to return to the base marina at Ellesmere. There are a total of nine lockls & three lift bridges between Whitchurch and Wrenbury. I cannot beleve they allow us to stop traffic to get the boat through the small bridge areas. I felt like the King, stopping traffic and raising the bridge, ( we had 12 cars stopped at the crossing). The bridges are hydraulic assist but still require hand cranking to raise and lower. We stop traffic and they seem to not mind waiting. Weather for the past 2 days has been pretty good, (no rain) but temps are still cool.
We yelled for the girls to come and see the swains in the water, and there must have been a communication disconnect, Susie came up looking for a pig (swine) and Judith came looking for a cow??? Tommy and I just kept on running the boat trying to figure out where we went wrong.
Stopped for lunch and a pint of ale, the barmaid thought we might be Canadian
because we were so friendly, Tommy said no, we were Southern Americans and always friendly and that they should never judge us by our YANKEE counterparts.
Yesterday we walked around Whitchurch, visited the Butcher shops, bakeries and the WOOLWORTH’s , had lunch at the Red Bull and bought a few groceries. At the grocery you had to deposit a 1 pound coin in the cart handle in order to get a grocery cart, when you returned the cart your coin was returned, neat idea to keep the carts from walking away and being left all over the parking lot.
We continue to see lots of countryside but here there are more horses, hunters(jumpers) I think, from the looks of the jumps that are set up in the fields.
We met Claire on one of our stops along the canal, she had to show us her pride and joy a 1956 Mini Cooper.
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