Day 41, Garstang to Lancaster.
We have noticed that there are flags out in every place we visit, Garstang was no exception. Hopefully they are for us, or has there been another event going on! Our route today continued on the A6 with great views of The Trough of Bowland again. We had arranged to meet Janet and Ian at […]
Day 40, Preston to Garstang.
We had a great rest day yesterday visiting Avenham Park next to the River Ribble. It was really beautiful and so peaceful. This morning we decided to head along the straight A6 to Garstang to save a few miles from the winding canal. Of course this meant we, once again, passed under the M6. It’s […]
Day 38, Rufford to Preston.
We rejoined The Leeds and Liverpool Canal to begin our journey towards Preston. Today the canal travelled through wonderful arable farmland all incredibly neatly sown with crops. Following a small section on roads we then made our way along a track and across more wonderful open countryside towards The River Ribble. We had planned to […]
Day 37, Wigan to Rufford.
A different start to today when we passed two iconic locations. First of all Wigan Pier, initially made famous by jokes by comedians. Later it was in the title of a George Orwell book, The Road To Wigan Pier. Actually this is probably not the site of the original ‘pier’ but the area is now […]
Day 36, Warrington to Wigan.
We had a real treat last night when we went to Sandra and Tony’s house for a lovely home cooked meal. It was great to catch up. Today and tomorrow they are also moving our main kit along the trail. Thank you so much! We continued our journey through Warrington Town centre crossing the M62 […]
Day 35, Dutton Locks to Warrington.
Our stay last night was in a beautiful remote area close to Dutton Locks. It was lovely to start the day walking across fields back towards the Trent and Mersey Canal which we’ve walked on for 5 days. We soon came to the very well known Preston Brook tunnel. We started seeing signs for this […]
Day 34, Sandbach to Dutton Locks.
It’s been a long, tough, wet day. We always knew this would be one of the hard days and it didn’t disappoint! We set off in rain through the leafy streets of quiet Sandbach and headed back onto the Trent and Mersey Canal. All flat today with very few locks but still quite a lot […]
Day 33, Stoke on Trent to Sandbach.
There was great excitement in Stoke today as Robbie Williams was in town to play his homecoming concert at Port Vale. Quite an event but we decided not to stay and headed back to the canal! We resumed our views of Stoke’s incredible industrial heritage. There are so many interesting buildings to see it’s hard […]
Day 32, Stone to Stoke on Trent.
We had a lovely start to the day when Drew Wilson came to catch up with us and also move our main kit to our next destination. It was great to have a chat and find out lots of local information. There was a bit of ‘Spine’ discussion too of course! Thank you so much […]
Day 31, Gailey Island to Stone.
It’s been lovely spending family time with Kate, George, Arron, April and Leo. We’ve certainly been spoilt and had lots of fun too! It was hard to leave but great to have so many happy memories to take with us on our journey. It was back on The Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal first thing this […]