We spend quite a bit of last week trundling about on the southern bit of the Staffs and Worcs canal = all very nice and secin and very quiet we passed a couple of boats a day at most.
THEN we headed north and a soon as we passed Autherly things got busier and busier until we got on the T&M and traffic reached saturation point at times. We passed a flotilla of 8 boat nose to tail at the rugeley aqueduct and no they weren't a boat club outing. Were we unlucky or does it often get like that nowdays ? Seems like half the traffic is either Canal time or Shakespeare boats I'm starting to think we may need to move out to the periphery of the system to get some piece and quiet Regards Terry Rigden
