Eight days till we leave and counting!!

Well we are well and truly on the countdown to leaving.  We have been frantically getting the boat all spick and span and all those little jobs sorted that seem to get left year in year out.  Is been scrubbed and washed, painted and polished.  Not a square inch has been ignored.  Anyway, less of that and more of the interesting stuff.

We are going to be going rather a long way this year, over a thousand miles and 800 or 900 locks - we are gluttons!

These are the major places of interest in order on our route, starting off at Peterborough:

Northampton
Braunston
Birmingham
Wolverhampton
Llangollen
Chester
Northwich
Macclesfield
Marple
Huddersfield
Leeds
York
Lincoln
Nottingham
Leicester
Stoke Bruerne
Birkhamstead
Paddington Basin
Shepperton
Windsor
Reading
Oxford
Banbury
Braunston
Northampton
Peterborough

If anyone would like to visit us on our travels they are very welcome.  We can't always let you know where we are until we are nearly there, so it tends to be short notice, but if you can fall in with that, great.

We will be travelling Brenda and Mick on Ada Apple once again, its nice to have company.  Just want to get going now.

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