We finally left Rugby yesterday, had planned to go Thursday but Dave the guy we bought the boat from came to see us and have a chat. Dave and his wife Pam are planning to have another boat built by the same builder but want the new boat to be 60ft not the 62ft Piston broke is he needed to measure up and see where he could loose the 2ft. Was nice to see him and I think he was pleased the boat looked the same all be it with a name change.
Journey from Rugby was quiet as we only tend to travel on tick over we moored up at Ansty about 2.30 secured the boat and popped into the pub Rose and Castle for a swift half and book a table for the evening, got chatting to a guy called Snowy who just happened to be the president of the local social club he invited us to pop into the club tonight as in his words" beer is a lot cheaper then the pub". The meal we had was beautiful price for a main course averages £10 which isnt too bad. Total for us both was £32 which included a drink each and an ice cream for me for dessert. Can recommend it but it is advisable to book at the weekend as there were people being turned away. We will stay here until Monday and then make our way onto the Coventry Canal up to Streathay Wharf where we want to see about having the bost stretched by a few feet in the bow section to give us a larger cratch area it gets a bit crowded at the moment with us and two large dogs. Lets hope Monday is fine and not windy.
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- After years of working,Paul and I retired early. I worked in accounts departments and Paul spent 39 years as an Electrical Mechanical engineer in the industrial refrigeration industry. Paul also served time as a refrigeration engineer officer with P&O, to-ing and fro-ing to NZ. In 2001 we decided to move to Spain where we bought an old Spanish finca that needed total renovation. We took our 1500 Goldwing with us to Spain planning to explore the country. But because of the amount of work that needed doing to the finca we were unable to get full use of our lovely motorbike. So it was shipped back to England where it was sold. It took us 3 1/2 years to finish the house, by which time Paul was hankering after another bike so we bought a new Honda VTX 1300 cruiser which was a pleasure to use with our biker friends. In 2007 the writing was on the wall so we decided to return to the UK and bought our lovely narrowboat which was a big step for me as I had never dreamt of living on a narrowboat. Paul has had sailing boats in the past and regulary crewed on a Medway Bawley Gaffer and raced in many local events. We are continuous cruisers planning to explore as much as we can.
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