Wednesday 4th July 07

We left Hopwas at 8.45 in lovely sunshine by 9.15 it was waterproofs on again we carried on the Coventry canal to Fazeley then onto the Birmingham and Fazeley canal we arrived at Fradley Jctn and was more than surprised there was no Que for the lock we went straight through on to the Trent and Mersey canal. The River section at Alrewas have been closed for a few days but other boaters told us it had opened so we made our way on to Alrewas. The river section was quite high but we went through OK as we have spent 4 years on the river Avon and 3 years on the river Severn it was quite mild to us. We arrived back at Barton Turns Marina by 2.30pm but today we have had quite a mixed bag of weather heavy rain wind and some sunshine.