By The Way: Wrenbury to Venetian Marina Middlewich branch of Shropshire Union (Friday & Saturday)

Thursday was really windy with some heavy showers, luckily it was a work day for Rod so we weren't planning on moving, only one boat went past us all day.

The wind was so strong that it blew the chimney cover off, despite it being attached to the chimney by a chain - the chain snapped and off went the lid!!

The lid hit the roof of the boat and resulted in two big chips in the paintwork!!!

Nothing we could do on Thursday, but when we stopped on Friday, the paint brushes came out and George took up the position of foreman :-).

Saturday saw us come to the end of the Llangollen, we have loved our time on this really beautiful and rural canal, we are quite sad to be leaving it, but who knows what is round the next bend.

As we approached the final flight of locks, you can see the reservoir that that Llangollen feeds, which in turn supplies the Shropshire Union canal.

We made our way through the Hurlestone flight that would take us back onto the Shropshire Union.

The last lock was every bit as tight as on the way up, so the fenders were up again - breathe in!!

We headed onto the Middlewich branch, which is new territory for By The Way.

We spent the afternoon in Nantwich, so a visit to the the fish mongers was in order - we are stocked up on Seabass again!!

The sky cleared and there is a beautiful full moon tonight and we were visited by some late night feeders!! They were so cute I had to give them some bread, cheeky things then started to peck the algae on the boat!!