This is Steve & Viv Carter's log of the trips and travails on the narrowboat Adagio – liveaboards from October 2015. Then back to the shore, in Trefin, Wales from November 2019. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." (Mark Twain)” narrowboatadagio@gmail.com cranog5@gmail.com
Long Day
Seven hours – yes, a long day for us. Why? Because we were delayed at Glascote – a queue of 6 boats but wanted to reach Atherstone . . .
Viv drives for a few hours – very hot todayA work boat – making it a tad narrowThe canal from Fradley to Fazeley is quite prettyI think the military firing range helps to keep this area quite rural
Yes, the red flags were flying . . .
The shady trees help cool us all down – not many would call the Coventry Canal at first, beautiful . . ?Ah, Glascote – a bit of a queue, I think we are No6 – always a pinch point here – the bottom lock is notoriously slow to fill. So . . . an hour later . . we got thru. A brief lunch stop and a trip to the Co-op for more Stuff and then off, yes, let’s go on . . .Steve gets thru – note the port side is still shiny!Past AlvecoteAh, the big farm with alpacas and these geese . . .
And there are the alpacas – they look freshly shawn
Lovely fields of poppiesAh, you may spot a bit of deja vu – we were here at Easter, where we stayed put (it was a scorcher and Viv did her crochet work). After the long day we think we’ll stop for a bit.I struggled through the weeds to get the photo from the other side!Eleven locks, that’ll have to wait for another day . . .Time to go shopping (twice on the bike) as well as fix a few chores . . .
