Another slight change of plan, Diana’s dentist rang and need to bring forward her appointment so although we wont need to do long days we wont be deviating from the route home.
We got hailed by a gent who reads this block who is a lock keeper, always nice to meet someone who reads all this dribble I write, even if its only at shouting distance.
There are some rather smart gardens in Barlaston that back onto the towpath.
A little further we passed one of the original Trent and Mersey mileposts, I don’t know when the cast iron ones were erected, note the stone and iron ones are not at the same location. I wonder which is correct?
We met 2 dozen youngsters in packs of 6 trudging along the towpath as part of their DoE award. Does the new Duke support it the same as Phillip did?
We had no luck at all with the locks today, all 9 against us, bit of a problem at Meaford as there is loads of floating reeds below the top lock, I was very gentle but still got a good blade full which I removed in the second from bottom lock. The floating market are in Stone below Star Lock so there are no visitor moorings available until after the weekend but we weren't planning on stopping so soon anyway with the new time schedule. so we pushed on to moor well away from the railway at Burston.
Today’s Journey
6¾ miles 9 Locks in 4½ hours
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