The Hodma'dod: Decisions decisions

Bored with mentioning the weather so I wont!

We have now arrived at Fradley Junction where the Coventry and the Trent and Mersey canals meet and spent last night here and will stay here tonight and move on reasonably early tomorrow. Fradley junction is a very busy spot but steeped in canal history and has a really good feel to it. We did think we were going to have a problem stopping here as all the moorings approaching the junction were full so although we hadn't wanted to we had to go through the two locks and then managed to find the last mooring close to the junction.

Today was sunshine and showers - oops sorry said I wasn't going to mention the weather - but we had a good wander around, bought some more maps for our future travels and stopped for a hot chocolate and cake at the Kingfisher cafe where we were when it started raining again - oops sorry - so back to the boat and time for a few chores. I had managed to find some tool clips in a really old fashioned hardware store in Atherstone and so I put those up today which means we now have a more tidy boatman's area.

So we then had to decide where to next. Originally we had thought to go north up the Macclesfield and on to the Peak Forest which takes you right into the Peak District but Sarah wants to spend some time on the northerly canals and also to visit a woolfest which is near Lancaster so we have decided to leave that till next year when we should be out for longer and instead to go down the Staff and Worcester, then up the Shropshire and if time permits on to the Llangollen.

Tomorrow we plan to move on to Rugeley, do a bit of provisioning and possibly stop over for a night before going on to Gt Haywood to start our trip down the Staff and Worcester.