Chester to Barbridge
Tower Wharf (?), Chester
Shock! David is up before John! (0700; 0705) David went off to walk the walls and John, having done the walls on a recent visit to Chester, had a quick look in the city centre and then got the boat moving. Up Northgate Locks single handed, and then stopped at Iceland/Tesco for supplies.
Topped up with 20 litres of diesel at Beeston (45p/litre) and showered at Calveley Services.
a big hit
For some reason we have been putting beer bottle tops on the narrow window ledges. Well. they were just the right size! If we hit something a bit hard, some of these fall off. We can guage the severity of the impact by the number of bottle tops thrown onto the floor. The photo above shows the result of a reasonably noteworthy collision. The log fails to record who was steering at the time.
At 2045 we moored at Barbridge Junction, having turned left onto the Middlewich Branch. We ate at the Barbridge Inn (John had steak and ale pie; David had gammon steak. Both OK). We took part in the pub quiz for the fee of 50p per participant. We did terribly, scoring 10 out of 40. We didn't come bottom, though: the wooden spoon was taken by the team who scored just 4. (Phew!)
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