Despite it taking 7 hours to get home last week the wedding of Mark and Maria on the 31 May was a fabulous day made even better by the weather.
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| The lovely bride and the now more relaxed groom |
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| Anne and the mother of the groom Janet
Our other event at home was to celebrate the 60th birthdays of Bill and Clare on the Sunday. No rain but the sunshine was diluted with a very chilly wind but a good time was had by all celebrating them joining the 60 club!
A much better journey back to the boat and after returning the car to Enterprise in Wrexham we finally restarted our journey by leaving the marina on Wednesday lunchtime. The weather has definitely got warmer as no fires in the evenings which compares to May when we only managed two evenings when we didn't light the fire.
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| We are heading back down the Shropshire Union and this is our mooring on Wednesday (5 June) evening just before bridge 104 at Calveley |
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| The old warehouse showing its heritage at Bunbury Staircase Locks which is now used by Anglo Welsh hire boats |
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| Locks are usually brick built but Beeston Stone Lock is built from substantial stone blocks |
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| Couldn't resist this old signal box on the Crewe/Chester line which appears to be still working. Most of these are now gone replaced by some remote super power box |
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| This is Hurleston Junction where the Llangollen Branch of the Shropshire Canal leaves the main part of the Shropshire Union Canal on the right. We are heading south through the bridge |
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| A lovely canal house over looking Barbridge Junction |
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| An old working horse sculpture by bridge92 at Nantwich |
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| We moored on the embankment near the aqueduct which takes the canal over the Chester Road. |
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| We are moored tonight just past bridge 85 at Hack Green famous for its Cold War Underground Nuclear Bunker |
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| It is some place and worth a visit if in the area if only to realise what might have happened and also how much planning and money went into the cold war. |
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| A We177B 400 kiloton nuclear bomb. Reading the stark descriptions of what may have happened we wouldn't have had a chance of survival |
