What a Week!

15th to 25th June  2012 In this extended blog we set out for two festivals over two weekends, we go on one of the oldest working boat lifts in the world, Anderton Boat Lift, and Python returns to where she was built 83 Years ago – Yarwoods.

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Pressing On!

8th June  2012 Getting up, I was prepared for a two day cruise to Middlewich which I thought was going to be great with the 1 ½ mile long Harecastle Tunnel. Then I heard this from the BBC News “The Met Office has issued severe weather warnings for wind in South West England, the Midlands and the…

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To Etruria

2nd June  2012 Python cruised from Newark-on-Trent past Castle Marina, where we had a brief stop last year, through Stenson, Fradley and Stone and then onwards into Stoke mooring at the Etruria Industrial Museum, which is next to a BW yard, for our first festival – the Etruria Jubilee Canals Festival.

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