Friday 19th August 2016

What a difference 12 hours makes. We woke to torrential rain and after donning wet weather gear we left Tixall Wide to join the Trent and Mersey canal at Great Haywood and turn right towards our home mooring at Willington. As we reached Rugeley the rain stopped so we replenished supplies at Tesco where we were trapped for a while as the rain came down again!

Rugeley has an old mill which is ripe for development. It sold once but the development didn't happen so it is on the market again.

Then it was past the power station.

There is a narrow section to pass through and some strange characters on the towpath.

Luckily, in another very narrow section, we didn't meet anything in the tunnel.

Wood End Lock is very pretty and this photo shows how narrow the bridges can be.

Finally as we moored at Fradley we were treated to another rain shower and an impressive rainbow.