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
Stone to Ingestre
Our glorious chums, Stephen & Lucia, known by all as those Sicilians! Are back. And they’re out on their boat, Two’s Company, doing the Leicester Ring. We hope to coincide . . . somewhere and that somewhere is Wolseley Bridge (No 70) on the Trent & Mersey for the sole aim of dining together at the Shimla Indian restaurant. So we slip our moorings at 0845 and bimble a few hours to just beyond bridge 78 and adjacent to a rare nature reserve – an inland salt marsh.
We slip away . . . no one notices . . leaving the two lovely ladies on Lazy Days . .Another M&S purchase (2 for a tenner) – got to keep the old girl sweet! 😉One of those “awfully nice” hi-ziz a rind harSome wild geraniums (meadow cranesbill?)And some more wild flowers – wild sweet peasYou do meet some lovely folk on hire boats – here are some Netherlanders from Zeeland – yes, a new flag for me! Such grace, they all speak such excellent English… how’s your Dutch? I did say there’s a song from OMD but I don’t think it’s that Zeeland.And after letting out the Zeelanders, in comes SteveThree locks today, all well spaced out. Aston, Sandon and then WestonThere are some lovely bridges on the cut – such a lot of work went into these and probably by guys upside down for most of the day?Um, as we used to say in Nottingham, “it looks black over Bill’s Mother”, luckily the rain really did go away . .Final mooring point. Oh, that restaurant https://www.shimlapalace.com/ notes to follow . . . Tripadvisor review to follow . . .