The canal basin at Llangollen is way above the lovely old town. With steep steps & a slope to go down.
We were all mesmerised by the raging River Dee. Some elderly local chaps told us they’ve never seen the river so high. We saw many boats taking advantage of the river for white water rafting. I never actually managed to get the phone up in time to take a photo.
A trip on the Llangollen & Corwen Railway was called for. We travelled out on the steam train in the luxury of a first class carriage.
The train wasn’t far out of Corwen Station when it ground to a very sudden halt. The guard came to tell us all that they had a broken air line on the brakes. They did a temporary fix which got us to the next halt where we had to wait for another engine to come to pull ours back to Llangollen!
Although Llangollen is the terminus of the canal for visitors, it actually goes all the way to Horseshoe Falls, accessed on water by a horse-drawn boat. It was a truly miserable day, so we chose to do a short trip with the lads.
Magnus wanted to get some rock, but he decided to go for a traditional flavour and not this one. The shopkeeper said the ‘fish & Chips’ flavour is one of their most popular flavours, ‘really’?
The four of us navigated back along the narrows & over Pontcysyllte aqueduct, ready for crew change at Chirk. The boys were due back to school a week before Nikita. So Heather came to do the change over.
Nikita was quite pleased she’d missed the scary aqueduct and was happy to go over the small Chirk one with an edge on the off side as we re-entered England.
While we’d been up stream, the workforce had built a large dam around the breach site and were putting in steel piling.
She was only able to stay a couple of days but got to do a few lift bridges and locked us down the staircase of 3 locks & 3 single locks at Grindley Brook before being picked up by her dad.
I got to do a bit of spinning while waiting for a lock to be vacated on Hurleston Flight of locks, where we got back onto the Shropshire Union Canal.
And to end with one of the few sunsets we had.
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