Day 39 is Saturday 1st August and we travelled from Hawkesbury, on the Oxford Canal near Coventry, south east to Cathiron.
A sighting of Lindy Helen, a boat built in 1963 by Taylors of Chester for a Mr Smout to hire to holidaymakers on the Llangollen Canal. It is completely wooden, mahogony on an oak frame and has been carefully restored after periods of decrepitude. It's based on a Norfolk Broads cruiser, but with the width reduced to 6'10" to accommodate the canal locks
A view from the back showing the retractable wheelhouse roof
Lindy Helen in her heyday in 1971 crossing the famous Pontcysyllte aqueduct on the Llangollen Canal
Just before Stretton Stop the canal runs on a long and high embankment with views into the surrounding treetops
After Stretton Stop and its tiny swing bridge, we carry on through All Oaks Wood
Dense and overarching boughs - a cool corridor in the summer heat
Back to farmland and a flock of neat little sheep
A sunken garden in a boat!
Boat Inn Cottage (no longer a pub)
One of the many elegant cast iron bridges on this canal
Walton's Bridge, Cathiron with its interesting speckle of lichen
Sunday 2nd August and we planned to find a mooring in Rugby for a few days, to shop and for Jan to catch the train back to Sawley for the campervan's MOT.
At the boatyard near Falls Bridge, a boat craned out for painting
Newbold Tunnel is miniature at only 250 yards...
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Catnap was on the visitor moorings at Rugby while we caught up with MOT, shopping and other chores.
