Erewash and Nottingham Canals
A short canal break on Waterway Routes, from Loughborough on the Grand Union to Langley Mill at the end of the Erewash Canal via Shardlow, and then back to Beeston on the Trent.
photos from Lucy and Stephen
A short canal break on Waterway Routes, from Loughborough on the Grand Union to Langley Mill at the end of the Erewash Canal via Shardlow, and then back to Beeston on the Trent.
A visit for the two of us to the Lee Valley White Water Centre for some rafting.
A visit to the English Heritage site of Witley Court in Worcestershire, a spectacular ruined mansion with formal garden.
A canal holiday with friends from the Thames just below Oxford and along the Oxford Canal to Napton, and back.
In which: ● sculptures get me underway ● Polkerris works to a different calendar ● candy stripes mark the way ● I progress by ferry …
In which: I again wish I had shorts ● there are downs and ups and downs and ups ● granite takes a different shape ● …
In which: the weather is better than yesterday ● Wales comes to Devon ● I find time for cake and ice cream ● granite seeks …
In which: Good Friday is very quiet ● a ferry is run for me ● a small ferry is busier ● the walk proper begins …
In which: a train journey ends at the Lerryn Hotel ● legs are stretched around Pendennis Point ● tomorrow beckons across Carrick Roads ● you …
A birthday trip by steam trail from Ipswich to Windsor, pulled by LNER Thompson Class B1 61306, “Mayflower”.