We had an interesting night with young people yelling and carrying on at 3 AM which sounded like it was right outside our boat. I guess kids will be kids, and I’m sure they didn’t realize we were sleeping on the boat since there are many, many narrowboat moored to the shore without anyone in them. OK…I will give them the benefit of the doubt.
Luckily, we weren’t in a hurry to get out since we only plan about 2.5 hours of being underway today. You see, there is a flight of locks called Marple Lock Flight that is only open on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday, so we have to time it right to not arrive there too early. Bad for our schedule, but good for us stopping in towns and finding good pubs.
We slept in a bit and woke around 9 AM. There is an Industrial Museum right across from our mooring that we plan to visit before we take off today. Tim is quite excited. Me…well..whatever. We arrived at the museum around 10:20 AM and didn’t really expect much, but it wound up actually pretty interested and way bigger than we expected. Here are some photos from the museum:
Luckily, we weren’t in a hurry to get out since we only plan about 2.5 hours of being underway today. You see, there is a flight of locks called Marple Lock Flight that is only open on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday, so we have to time it right to not arrive there too early. Bad for our schedule, but good for us stopping in towns and finding good pubs.
We slept in a bit and woke around 9 AM. There is an Industrial Museum right across from our mooring that we plan to visit before we take off today. Tim is quite excited. Me…well..whatever. We arrived at the museum around 10:20 AM and didn’t really expect much, but it wound up actually pretty interested and way bigger than we expected. Here are some photos from the museum:
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We left the museum and had a good view of our boat on mooring:
There she is
Onward we go at 11:30 AM. Here is the first duck family we have seen this trip:
We made it to our very first draw bridge ever. It required my windless to crank the bridge up. It wasn’t difficult to turn, but it took a lot of cranks to make it raise a bit at a time.
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We made it to the town of Hyde just 1 hour later and had to stop since we needed to resupply our groceries some and there was mention of a good pub. First the pub, that did not disappoint. It had 5 real cask ales of which we sampled 4 of them. Pretty yummy.
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Oh…did I mention that the name of the pub is Cheshire Ring? This is the name of the route we are taking on the narrowboat. I guess it was meant to be that we stopped here.
Appropriately named pub for our adventure.
Next we popped across the street to the Aldi’s and resupplied our fridge. We should now have enough to get us through the next 5 days.
Back to the boat as we continue our way to Romiley.
Back to the boat as we continue our way to Romiley.
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 I liked the way this bench looked. |  Approaching an overpass |
 Approching the town of Stockport. |  Another cool overpass |
Oh…one fun thing today…Woodley Tunnel, a 176 yard tunnel that only took 1.5 minutes, but it was fun.
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We made it to our mooring in Romiley at 4:20…5 hours after leaving Ashton-under-Lyme, but with the stop in Hyde, we only ran the motor for about 3 hours. We are supposed to run the boat for at least 6 hours a day to keep our house batteries charged, so we kept the engine running for a couple of more hours while preparing and eating dinner (mushroom tortellini with garlic bread)
At around 6:30 PM we decided that the engine ran enough and we headed out. There are 2 pubs in town that are supposed to have good cask ale. The first is Spread Eagle that only had 2 cask ale available, but they were very good.
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Next we walked to Duke of York that had e cask ales available of which we had two.
We got back to the boat around 9, worked on the blog and read some before going to bed. We have a long day today and need to wake up earlier than usual. We will see you tomorrow.
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