Wolverley Court Lock - Top of Bratch locks - (Monday & Tuesday) - 13.5 miles, 19 locks

Monday was quite a nice start, we were aiming to travel till just after 12:00, as we had an appointment in Stourbridge at 3:00 to test drive a car for when I go back to work.

In comparison to our recent excitement it was a pretty uneventful day.

We passed some beautiful homes on the canal side

Would be nice to be able to moor your boat at the bottom of the garden.

There are quit a lot of what would previously have been lock keepers cottages on this stretch.

It is also at times like being on a jungle, you are so closed in by vegetation.

But other stretches are very picturesque .

Having completed quite a few locks it was clearly all too much for George, or was it just that he was missing the girls :-).

We moored up and made into into Stourbridge for the test drive.

Monday night, we had no internet or tv, so we had a couple of games of cribbage, ended one a peice - very diplomatic.

Tuesday we travelled to the top of the Bratch flight.

We were really lucky we were straight in, the last of 3 boats heading up.  Thankfully the lock keeper was in attendance as the instructions are quite complicated.

The view at the top of the locks.

Heading back to the boat after taking George for a little walk.

Two days of work for Rod now and I am off back to the house to continue with my decorating.

(EH 620.3, M 674.5, L 575)