We are on our way

We left Great Haywood last Sunday and with overnight stops at Salt (bridge 82), Stone, Barlaston and Longport, we are now rested at Kidsgrove.

Longport is most noted for Westport Lake. This is a lovely nature reserve and Lynne was in her element bird spotting. Beyond the lake and the town itself was, well not very pretty shall we say. Time to move on.

Next up was the Harecastle tunnel.  It takes 45 minutes to get through the tunnel. As you enter the tunnel, the doors bang closed behind you. The extractor fan then booms into life.  The sound of the fan slowly fades behind you, then a small spec of light in front slowly gets larger. Water drips now and again and the cold air fells eerily chilly. They say the tunnel has ghosts...The small spec of light becomes a large opening and as you exit the tunnel, you can feel the warmth of the sun again.

Ready for the Summer

The car has now been sold at Stafford Car Auction,  and we can finally set sail on Sunday! I am going to see if I can get the bowthruster working tomorrow with the help of Mick. He's really good with electrics. Hopefully the fault is something simple and we can have this useful piece of kit working before we leave.

We also need to charge everything up first, lap tops, kindles, cameras etc and I want to sort my music player out.  I also need to check how much diesel we have in the tank!. Then we'll be off for the summer.

I will be posting regular updates, so if you are interested in what we get up to,  keep checking the blog.