This is a picture blog of the travels of Slow Pace and crew during our 2015 cruise from our mooring at Stanstead Abbotts to the Stratford-upon-avon and the Birmingham area.

Our route will be via the River Lee, Regents Canal, Grand Union Paddington Arm, Grand Union, Stratford-upon-avon Canal, Worcester & Birmingham Canal, Birmingham Canal Navigations, Staffordshire & Worcester Canal, Coventry Canal and North Oxford Canal before returning via the Grand Union etc.

You can click on pictures to enlarge and scroll through them but you will lose any captions I have added.

Here a is a map to help plot our progress:

Canal and River Map

Canal and River Map

Monday, 4 May 2015

The start

We left our mooring at Stanstead Abbotts on the River Lee at the start of our trip on Thursday 30 April.




Our friends Alan & Jen pair up with us on their boat Purple Parrot.









The next day we share the locks with another boat for the journey to Little Venice







We are joined by our friends Bill & Sandra on their boat Scotch Corner. Below are Slow Pace, Purple Parrot and Scotch Corner in the locks adjacent to Camden Market.






We arrived at Little Venice, where the Regents Canal meets the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, on Friday 1 May for the weekend's annual Canalway Cavalcade Festival. We were one of the first boats to manoeuvre into our allocated position. It did not go well..............

Yes, Peter fell in!!!!



There was a parade of decorated boats...

....and a parade of illuminated boats.

Cheers!


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