Canal Holiday - Day 7

We set off at a reasonable time in order to get back the Marina for some servicing and repairs that had been previously booked in. It was a pleasurable cruise, working our last locks with flapjacks and biscuits fuelling the way.

Tixall Wide was deemed to be a beautiful enough place to have lunch. Well, I deemed it beautiful and Dad decided to stop there for lunch.

After we’d pumped out, and Neil, the man who was scheduled to make the repairs, had started work, we walked around the marina to try and find a kingfisher.

We failed at that, but we did discover the Great Haywood Monster in the form of the most enormous carp you have ever seen. Its mouth was big enough to swallow a duck whole.


We wandered off towards the pub, detouring via Shugborough Park to view the very big house and talk to the cows and calves that were very curious, although very timid.


At the pub, we had the best meal of the holidays - goujons big enough and and packed enough to be a main meal in their own right, and we had them for starters. We celebrated the conclusion of a wonderful few days, as well as not sinking anything, and retired back to the boat.