Abi volunteered to chauffeur the two of us to Fleet Station, along with all our bags. Thanks Abi. Strangely our tickets took us on a different route to our journey a fortnight ago. This time we went into London. Struggling with heavy bags between Waterloo and Euston on the underground was a bit of a mission - escalators have yet to arrive on the Northern Line. Our pre-booked seats on the London to Manchester train were already occupied by a gentleman. But then we checked tickets and he discovered he was on the wrong train, which was great for us but bad news for him. Did the weeks shopping on arrival at Northwich then phoned for a taxi to take us to the marina. The taxi that arrived was a mini-bus which I thought far too large for just the two of us - then realised it was OK once we saw the size of the taxi driver.
Got back to the boat at 5pm. There was a boat service point just outside the marina so we decided to fill up with water and empty the loo tank in preparation for the trip to Liverpool. Fortunately the pump-out proved to be much less messy than our previous experience on the Montgomery canal.
These are the voyages of Ken, Annie and dog Peggy. As we cruise we will try and keep the blog up-to-date - internet access permitting of course. Ceilidh is a 54ft cruiser style narrowboat. It was built by J Pinder Ltd for Black Prince hire boats in 1995.
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