Sunday 25 September 2011

Back in Alrewas, Trent and Mersey Canal

Hello - we are back afloat again having picked up the boat a few days ago. All in order and exactly as we left it - pretty amazing, since we had inadvertently left a complete set of boat keys on the boat roof, that were precisely where we left them!!!!

Since last Tuesday was so abysmal, we decided to use the car and visit the National Memorial Arboretum. This place has been on our list for a while, and although a gloomy damp day, we did not find the place at all depressing. In fact it was a really restful and very pleasantly and thoughtfully laid out area, with many trees and shrubs and very tasteful memorials placed by hundreds of organisations. The white stone walls of the main memorial, is very striking, especially  the gap in the wall deliberately positioned so that the sunlight falls through at the 11th hour, of the 11th day, each November. This is a place we will return to I am sure.

We also met our friends Steve and Jill visiting from Brisbane, Aus, and so we went back up the Trent and Mersey to Weston upon Trent, as we recalled The Saracens Head was a good meeting place. This couple made history, when Steve, a crew chef on our hotel boats followed Jill one of our passengers back to Oz, and they got married! A good day.