Friday 30th August 2013 Skipton to Keighley

Canalside properties

Approaching one of many swing bridges

Leaving a swing bridge

Tom walking to open a swing bridge

Fabulous views

More views of the Yorkshire Dales

Happy Sheep

Thirsty Cows

Canalside properties

Thursday 29th August 2013 Skipton

Skipton Castle

Indoor Shopping Arcade

Church attached to Castle

Visitors Mooring

Trip boat in trouble!

Skipton Market

Sculpture of Freddie Truman

Tuesday 27th August 2013 Foulridge to Skipton - The Yorkshire Dales

Route so far

Aquaduct on the Yorkshire Dales

Foulridge - a walk round the village

Tom at the locks - his thirteenth of the day!

We are surrounded by the most beautiful scenery

Sharp turn on the canal - boat in the background is where we had just come from

We picked up some helpers en route

Houses built with sloping roofs

Sunset last night over the Dales

Saturday 24th August 2013 - Day with Eillen and Tony in Higham Village and the Scarecrow Festival

Higham Village where Tony and Eileen live

Rapunzel - Outside Harry and Heather's House

Marry Mary Quite Contrary

Harry - joining us for a picture

The Owl and the Pussycat

Spot the Scarecrow

Pinocchio

Outside the village pub

On Pendle Hill

Back to Eileen and Tony's house for a Barbecue

Starters inside

Christine relaxing after a hard day

Friday 23rd August 2013 Journey through Burnley

Rows of Chimney Pots

The Canal going over the Motorway

Not all picturesque - so much litter thrown in this canal

One of the old Mills being converted into flats

Emerging from the Gannow Tunnel

View across Burnley

Friday 23rd August 2013 Wigan to Burnley

Mooring at Chorley

Tom in the stocks at Withnell Folds

Disused Lock Cottage on the Johnson Flight of Locks

Derelict Mill at Blackburn

Post box and Telephone Box at the bottom of a garden

View from our mooring overnight at Hapton

Final day in Liverpool and a visit to The Old Dock

The real days of cruising
South Africa, Java, Malaya, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Egypt
January to April

Long view

The Old Wet Dock
(Under Liverpool 1 shopping centre)

Liverpool Marina 

(Sanitary station visit, not Tom's favourite job)

NB Lottie All spruced up, polished (thanks for the wax Gordon) and ready to go

French simplicity
(effective)

Tom pleased with his new Anchor for the boat

And to finish
ON REFLECTION LIVERPOOL HAS BEEN A FANTASTIC CITY TO VISIT
A CITY BREAK IS WELL WORTHWHILE


As we will now be going back over Old Ground
 we will not be blogging for the next couple of days.

Thanks for following our trip to date

Tom & Christine