Leaving our mooring the first stop was the Calveley Service Station for water and rubbish drop. Its also a C&RT boat yard and office and has a rather useful over water awning.
The sign advertises a pump out which I checked out, but it is in fact only an elsan disposal point. Shortly thereafter we found the cheese shop.
It is a new wooden building with cafe and shop, all very modern and clean looking with a good selection of cheese, but also other groceries as well. No newspapers though. We had to stop at the petrol station just a little bit further along.
This time Pat used the stairs through the hedge and up the embankment. Once we passed Barbridge junction things got busy. We no longer had the canal to ourselves, both with moored boats and opposite direct traffic as well. Wanting a new boat hook (don't ask why) we found a well stocked chandlery at Nantwich Boat Centre before finishing the day 2 locks up at Audlem.
It's quite a while since we visited the Shroppie Fly, so it was a good opportunity. We had a couple of Chicken Caesar Salads there in the evening. The term 'Fly' no doubt refers to the Fly Boats which plied the canal in the distant past. Designed for speed, they were pulled at speed by a team of horses having preference at locks. So it is said - I wasn't there.
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