Day 8: We made it to Chirk!

Day8: 24th August. We were on the Llangollen canal. A beautiful rural canal. Wish we could spend more time on it but we aimed to get to Llangollen tomorrow, the day before the bank holiday. The first thing you notice about the Llangollen canal is the number of hire boats- loads of them everywhere. Well that is how we started many moons ago. 

We were away early at 08:00. We new Grindley Brook locks were a real bottleneck and we started up the flight just before 08:15 in light rain. No other boats on the move and in just over 45 minutes we were at the top lock. Here we saw the lock keeper for the first time but we were already leaving when he saw us! Must be the rain. 

The rain didn't last and the sun was soon out again. The progress up the Llangollen was faster than I had ever thought possible and once again we kept on going. Another 12 hour day but it was worth it. Just after 8 we moored adjacent Chirk marina. Tomorrow we would make it to our goal - Llangollen and the superb Ponty-thingy  aqueduct!!