Daily Archives: 29/03/2022

Sunday 27th to Tuesday 29th March 2022 We have now reached day 40 on The Duke – a number with Biblical associations – and Ralf will be returning to his homeland. The only problem is that it is difficult to identify exactly when we will be entering Wales: looking at the map, the canal seems to cross and re-cross the border. We are hoping that a sign will proudly announce when we arrive in Wales properly. A short distance from Barbridge, although still in England at this point, we turned onto the Llangollen Canal. Immediately, we were faced with the first of the 21 locks on the Llangollen Canal – the flight of four Hurleston Locks which rise 34 feet 3 inches from the Shropshire Union Canal. Ralf again wanted to participate in the adventure and perhaps plant his paws on his motherland once more. Matilda had to crank open a lift bridge. . . . . . and watch The Duke glide past before closing it again. Robert had read that there were cast iron embellishments to the graves at St Margaret’s in Wrenbury but Matilda could not identify them and as there was a man tending a grave […]