Email dated Sept 14thWe are up in the wilds of Shropshire on the Llangollen Canal. We have three festivals in this area in September. So far we have done Maesbury Festival on the Montgomery Canal and Ellesmere Festival on the Llangollen. Sales were good at both although I was surprised at Ellesmere figured it would be our best weekend yet. But Audlem blew her doors off. Everyone noticed that it was a little quiet. Might be the constant bad news about a double dip recession. BBC News, talk about self fulling prophesying!
Right now we are moored out of town, chillin' . Both knackered and slowly tending to small jobs. We are having the back end of some hurricane or tropical depression that's drag it's sorry ass across the Atlantic. Lots of wind and rain. According to BBC (those useless fuckers) it is suppose to blow through and we will have a nice late afternoon. If that is the case we will go and turn this boat around and have it pointing back towards Whitchurch and our next event coming up this weekend. After Whitchurch we have to get to Banbury by the 1st of October for their Canal festival. It will be a challenge getting there 159 miles and 103 locks in 10 days. All the wharf rats say its a two week trip (that's what I think also, I guess I'm turning into one of them, quick shoot me!) Watch this space!
At least that was the plan until the mechanical difficulty mentioned on the Cheese Boat Site occurred. Now they are on their way from Audlum headed for Norbury Junction for the week end of Oct 1st to 3rd.We don't know what the problem was but they ended up at Audlum again last weekend. Probably for the best as Banbury was pretty ambitious.
The Llangollen Canal is the busiest canal Helen and I have ever seen. From dawn to dusk a boat passes us every 5 minutes or less. That is a freak of a lot of boats. This place is totally nuts!!!!!!!
No pictures this time, but we had to get caught up on where they are at least!
