Touring last weekend

Anderton Boat Lift

Almost 5 weeks after boarding Rhapsody and walking everywhere we hired a small Vauxhall Corsa car from fri morn thru to mon morning at a special weekend rate. Enterprise car rental re very good and sent a car from Crewe to pick us up and returned us after we dropped the car on monday. All part of the service. We have been busy, Crewe markets, Anderton Boat Lift, Chester city, Ellesmere Port Boat Museum, Birkinhead, Liverpool and Albert Docks, in England and Colwyn Bay, Llandudno, Bangor and Beaumaris in Wales, returning to the boat at Barbridge each evening. We ran the engine to heat water and charge the batteries each morning before setting off. We returned too late for TV so the inverter battery power is remaining around 98%. The flowers in the planters on the roof are bushing out and look good. Rain water does the trick.

Ship size lock from Albert Dock to the Mersey

Ellesmere Port Boat Museum

This is a real coal boat that was used in coal mines to bring coal from the face to the loading point. Yes the mini canals ran thru the mine and men legged them by lying on their back and pushing off the roof with their legs as shown by the manequin.

Lifting a 30 foot narrowboat into the canal at Ellesmere Port

Chester's Clock, it is on the city walls that were built before Cap'n Cook discovered Australia.

Chester, old pub, still thriving. This area is called the Rows and all the old buildings have been saved from the developers. It was Race Day and the fashionista's were out in style. And wedding parties, Chester must be THE place to get married.

Beaumaris Castle on the Isle of Anglesey, on the Holyhead side of Menai Strait.

The Menai Bridge. We also crossed the Britannia Bridge but this one is so attractive (if you are attracted to bridges).

This is the Menai Strait taken from the vintage pier at Bangor and looking toward the Irish sea. We enjoyed Welsh rarebit and it's cooked differently here in Wales and delicious. The kiosk cook also gave me lessons in the genuine pronounciation for the Pontcysyllte aquaduct. I just wish he wouldn't do it while cooking the rarebit

6' bridge at Penmaenmawr near Dwygyfylchi on the road to Abergwyngregys. Try saying that after a pint.

All the beaches are like Australia, a bit, they have water. Some even have sand but not this one.

Paragliding surfers, no shortage of wind, it would blow the tail off a sheep dog.


Meanwhile back aboard Rhapsody and more esoteric sights, poor old Jessie, there was a bloke on a quad bike trying to hurry her up and she literally s... herself.

11' 3" deep Lock at Cholmondeston



Current mooring at Middlewich. Fish and chips from the Kings lock fishshop last night, 4/10. Home made Duck l'orange tonight.