Day 1

0 Locks: 4 Swing Bridges: 13 Miles : 1 Broken Glass: 1 Cut finger (Mine): 8 litres of Pimms remaining

Yesterday, Day 0 was productive because we were able to get ourselves sorted on the boat. It was quite incredible the amount of belongings we have, it felt we were moving home which I guess we were! Unfortunately we discovered that 12 volt items don't really work on the boat, so the vacuum cleaner and TV are redundant. We bought a 12 volt power supply for the laptops instead of the usual 240 volt, so now we cannot use our laptops, hoover or watch any DVDs. However, we haven't missed any of these today and have had a great time. We didn't need to operate the swing bridges because we followed a couple of hotel canal boats (something I'd never heard of before!) and they raised and lowered them for us.

It is relaxing watching the world go by, admiring all the different canal boats and getting inspiration for our own. We've had another thought for the name - 'Little Abbey', which was Matthew's idea. What do you think? 

Anthony and Charlotte had a bad night sleeping, they were chatting until 9:30pm and then Anthony was up turning on the lights at 2am, and they both got up and played at 4am!! Then they were up at 6 am and playing on their Mobigos! So they were more than happy cuddling their toys sitting by the tiller bar for most of the day, observing wildlife such sheep, horses, swans and ducks.

Tomorrow will see us navigating our way through out first set of locks (which we are moored at the top of tonight) but these do have a lock keeper which makes it quicker and easier. Please do some sun dances for the next two weeks - we forgot our rain gear, despite having them on our list.