----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Maybe not everyone's on holiday... I started many at day at around 6:00 > (moving off time) last year. But I wanted to move the boat from top of > the Stort to Whixall, and I could only get 17 days off - first Sat lost > going to Essex (and shopping), then the Sun lost driving to Whixall and > getting the train back to Bishop's Stortford. Leaving me with just 15 > days travelling - by picking the route of least locks (still a couple of > hundred...) we did it with half a day to spare.
<YORKSHIRE ACCENT>Luxury, bloody luxury. When I were a lad, we got boat from Waltham Abbey to Sawley in 7 days, there were stoppages ont all the GU locks, and we still had to drive back to 'ull</YORKSHIRE ACCENT> :-) Seriously, though, I suspose they could have been in a rush, but what is the betting they pulled in during the afternoon, and didn't go any further. Mike --- Mike Askin nb. Kismet http://shoestring.zapto.org/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
