Month: August 2016

Not an eventful day.

Not a massive amount of sailing.

Dropped into Nantwich, which is a nice market town, for a spot of lunch and some shopping.

Bumped into Peter Ainsworth, whose brother I went to university with.

He shouted down the street at the TOP of his voice.

I generally tend to ignore people shouting at me, until I’m sure it’s me they’re shouting at!

Turns out this time they were shouting at me!

Stopped for a chat, which went on some time. Then bumped into some other people I used to know! Tony and Clair, Tony was my GP at one point when I lived in Cheshire, and they were both members of amateur dramatics society which was popular in the village I used to live in.

Very exciting.

All before Aldi too, could hardly contain myself. Continue reading “Bonny Journey – Day 4 – Audlem to Church Minshull”

Made it though and to the other side of the 15 locks by the close of the day.

Cooked myself a stir-fry, and have settled down for the night to write the blog.

Gnosall, Navigation Inn

I started out from the Navigation Inn in Gnosall, where I filled the water-tank. As luck would have it, it was directly outside my front door.

Got this done, and most of my chores by about 7.20am. Continue reading “Bonny Journey – Day 3 – Gnosall to Audlem”

So….

I’ll be travelling as far north as I possibly can before running aground. Then I will travial to the northern reaches of Scotland.

From here, from the small town of John O’Groats, I shall begin my journey down, using methods only of my own means, toward Lands End.

Bonny Journey

I’ve no idea how long it will take, but it seems a bit crazy, so I thought I ought to do it. Continue reading “Bonny Journey – Day 1 – Saturday 27th August”