And down onto the Weaver

Tuesday 14th May 2019

Beauty Tip of the day – when applying moisturiser to your face do not forget if you are wearing glasses. It seems that yesterday’s sun has got to my brain even though I wore my sun hat all day.

First stop of the morning was Anderton services to dump the rubbish and fill the water tank. Then off up to the Anderton Lift to see if there were any passages down to the Weaver available today.

 “When would you like to go?” was the response. Errm! today? Can
you be here in 15 minutes? Of course! We went down solo within 45 minutes of requesting passage.
What a beautiful day to be on the river. The scenery is gorgeous, the locks are manned and the lockies provide a great tourist information service too! Graham loved the use of railway type signal to
indicate which lock is in use.
Through Northwich and onto fresh waters. We passed nb Tysley, complete with a crew of Mikron actors, tied up at Northwich boatyard and then almost immediately passed Yarwoods yard on the opposite side.


The countryside is rural but with salt and other mineral works intersperced. We cruised right up to Winsford wharf where we stopped and went for a post-lunch pint in the Red Lion. Good selection of beers, good music, a live music venue and art centre. Friendly too! The pub has moorings for about two narrowboats adjacent to the beer garden but is only short walk from lots of free moorings at the wharf two bridges further up.

We reversed out of the wharf and made our way back down river to Vale Royal visitor moorings. It is beautiful in the May sunshine and so quiet, only woorland birds, a pheasant and occasional walkers and cyclists passing to disturb us. Graham took the opportunity of being on a river to give Jannock a good wash as she was definately looking grubby.

Brenda