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Trent & Mersey Canal - Starting the way home

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Since my last post I have speeded up getting back to London, because I have now launched my RYA boat training business (in London) and am getting bookings in already. I am now on my way back down the Grand Union to London, but have a bit of catching up to do on the blog. In this post I am covering the Trent & Mersey Canal up to Fradley Junction, where I turned off.  My next post will cover the Coventry and Northern Oxford canals leading back to Braunston, where I joined the big old Grand Union canal once more. The next one will be the last blog post for now as I am sure you are all getting bored of my ramblings about the ups and downs of the Grand Union by now. I left off last time where I was coming off the river Trent onto the safety of the Trent & Mersey canal. The canal starts at Derwent Mouth lock, but the mile markers on the canal go to Shardlow, which is about a mile in from Derwent Mouth. Thre first of the lovely mile markers The Trent & Mersey Canal is one of the o
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Leicester to Shardlow - river navigation!

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As I mentioned in my last post, in Leicester the canal joins the river Soar. The Soar then heads north and joins the Trent near Nottingham. I was advised not to stop anywhere after the city centre until I got to Birstall, a village to the north of Leicester.  It was another hot day and at the lock in Birstall, there was another - this time larger - group of kids playing in and around the lock. They were a little bit more unruly than the previous lot. It was like herding cats keeping them from climbing all over the lock gates, getting in my way and even jumping on the boat (one did manage it at the end). Onlookers on the bridge were amused by all this, but I was quite stressed.  Fortunately the visitor moorings just after the lock were very nice. They are located right where the river joins again after having gone over a weir.  Birstall - lock to the right, weir to the left Unfortunately, my time on the Soar coincided with quite a lot of rain and I got a taster of what the Soar is capab
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