Day Twenty One - A Canal Walk

Tuesday, 21st August 2018

Today was forecast to be the best day of the week and so, as we are moving off tomorrow, we decided to do a walk.  We have seen signs from the road to The Shropshire Union Canal and hoped it had a good, walkable path. Just 10 miles brought us to Anglo Welsh Waterway Holidays where we were able to park. We were told the westerly path was a good walk, and the prettier direction so we set off in bright sunshine and with the deep chugging of narrow boats behind us.

It was a delight for us, having spent a good deal of our holiday in towns and trudging the streets, to be in the heart of the countryside and to savour the silence.

 

we walked for about two hours then stopped for our packed lunch which we eat by a lock, watching the boats passing through with, generally, the men behind the wheel, glass in hand, and the women performing the tough  job of winding open the valves then pushing open the lock gates.

We continued on for a while before turning and making our way back to our start point and the car.

It was a beautiful walk during which we saw two Kingfishers, a couple of Herons, many Ducks, Kites, Swallows and of course, several boats and their friendly crew.

Back by 6pm and took the awning down before cooking dinner then crashed out for the evening with the final episode of Sense and Sensibility, damp eyes all round.








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