Thanks for the warm welcomes.
We would certainly be interested to explore the Caledonian Canal one day, I am quite familiar with that area by road but have never seen it from the water.
We have explored a decent proportion of the English and Welsh canals but count ourselves quite fortunate that our home stretch, the lower end of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal, has to be one of the nicest. Quite an achievement when you think that most of it was dug out by hand with picks and shovels, but it's some of the tunnels that amaze me the most, not to mention things like the Pontythingy aqueduct near Llangollen.
For those who don't know, that Tardebigge flight mentioned previously is the longest in the country with 30 locks, on the Worcester & Birmingham canal, linking the River Severn with Brum and the Stratford and Grand Union canals. We've been up it a couple of times and it makes a good morning's work. Great fruit trees for the foraging wine maker.
Hello Adrian (NewRoad), can you guess my real name? I met a young lady who happened to be reading those damned Sue Townsend diaries at the time and have been Moley ever since. It came back to bite her as she subsequently became Mrs. Mole.
And hello to the other Mog driver who flashed me this morning coming through Kidderminster (with the roof up). Sorry I didn't get a good look at you as my attention was firmly fixed on my speedometer at the time, being yards from a yellow box on a pole.
Regards,
Ade.
