Our first blog for 2022 and a new approach to blogging for this year

 We have given some thought to how often we update this blog and what we put on it. Over the years we have been boating and now that we have covered nearly all the inland waterways in England and Wales updating the blog is not always the pleasurable occupation it once was. So this year we will be trying some new approaches. Mainly we will focus any blogs on significant days on the canals particularly on less frequented waterways. For instance later this summer we hope to cross onto the Lancaster Canal using the tidal Ribble Link and that will certainly feature on the blog. But on more routine parts of the system which are well travelled by others we will likely just put up some nice photos on Helen's Facebook Page. I hope this link will lead you to that page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010379438009.  I think you will need to be a member of Facebook before this will work.

In the meantime here are a few photos of our last two days on the River Trent. This year, we have started out rather later than usual principally because we have spent nearly 3 weeks on a car trip to Orkney.  So it was not until yesterday (Thursday 19 May) that we set off from Nottingham to go out on the river Trent and downstream towards Newark:

Here we are, having left the marina cruising the Nottingham Canal into the city.

The first lock of the year was Castle Lock

After two locks we are now out on the River Trent about to go under Lady Bay Bridge and heading downstream out of Nottingham. As is apparent we had a lovely day for the start of boating this year.

After a night above Holme Lock where we could see brave canoeists on the white water course alongside the lock, today was not such good weather but we have carried on downstream to Fiskerton. In the picture we are about to go under Gunthorpe Bridge, the only road bridge over the river between Nottingham and Newark.

So there you have it, a brief introduction to this blog for 2022.