A short first day took us to a favourite mooring outside Rugeley. We had stopped for lunch and decided to stay put. The Trent and Mersey is really busy now. It seems that there has been a great departure of boats from their marinas and moorings since we were last travelling. As we sat in the sunshine, yes that's right, sunshine, we watched boat after boat pass by in both direction.
These busy boat movements started very early the next day as well. For us it was a brief stop in Rugeley to visit Tesco then, in the warm sunshine, on to an offside mooring by the Armitage Shanks factory for a lunch stop.
With these very pleasant cruising conditions we chugged along to Fradley Junction, where we were hoping to moor. Above the locks it was chock a block, so through the locks and past the Mucky Duck, turn right onto the Coventry Canal, through the swing bridge we travelled hoping to moor along this stretch. No such luck. There were boats moored, even two breasted up, right up to bridge 91. We have never seen it quite so busy. We ventured on and we're rewarded with a pleasant sunny mooring a short way on and enjoyed our first gin and tonics this year on the back deck in beautiful, warm sunshine.
Fazeley Junction and onward tomorrow.
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