Friday 13th July '12

Norwin gets our attention just after 8am by banging on the boat and saying that the locks are open and they are heading off.
We rise in record time and follow him - bless them they have opened the lock for us and so we are on our way.
We find Alrewas not as busy as expected, in fact there were moorings to be had if we had wanted them at that point. We get to the river lock and there are already boats coming up but we are the first two boats seemingly to be going down.
I insist we put on lifejackets - after yesterdays adventure I'm taking no chances!
We actually find the river less difficult than we had expected. GEtting past the weir was not at all traumatic and the narrow bridge, which John had thought would be the worst bit was no problem at all and so we find ourselves over the river and back in the canal system.
The weather is awful and we are wet and cold and hungry - we breakfast in shifts whilst on the move and I make multiple mugs of Bovril! Despite it all we decide that we will get back today so we continue through - at one of the locks we have a queue of 21 boats waiting to go up! Heaven knows how many were behind us, but at least it meant that we were able to get through the first few locks easily.
We arrive home about 2.45pm. and put the heating on, get changed and have a hot drink and some lunch.
It's good to be back but so happy that we did it - where next?