Hi Guys, We're still about, we stayed around Llangollen and Trevor until about 10days ago, we're now on the move again and heading north. Whilst still in Wales there were a couple of amusing moments, one was when we lost most of the water out the canal due to a breach and everybody got stuck on the bottom and the other was a car somersaulting into the canal just up from where we were moored, nobody was hurt just a very soggy car.

We had a great time in Wales and found it very hard to drag ourselves away. We met so many lovely people, the BW guys at Llangollen Basin, the guys at the Sun Trevor Pub (good beer, good food and amazing scenery), the guys at the Telford Inn at Trevor Basin (good beer, homemade steak pie to die for and it’s right next to the amazing Pontcysyllte Aqueduct).

On our way back along the Llangollen Canal we booked to go down the Montgomery Canal on Thursday 16^th August. We had to be there between 12-2pm as this is the only times the locks are open that lead onto the Montgomery. We arrived a little early and joined the queue waiting for the locks. As the Monty is now a conservation area they only allow a few boats each day so the queue wasn’t to bad. The water levels on the lock flight have to be monitored carefully as the lock keepers cottage can get flooded if too much water is let into the middle pound. The lock keeper tells you when to move your boat and when to open and shut the paddles to allow the water in or out the locks. We made it through the locks by about 1pm and headed off to the end of the canal. The canal was once approx 35miles long but due to the canal being abandoned in 1944 there are now only 7 navigable miles and a speed limit of 2mph not 4mph like the normal canals. After being on the busy Llangollen Canal it was so quiet and peaceful being on the Monty in the whole 7miles we passed two boats. We found a lovely mooring near the end of the canal and stayed there for a couple of days. It was very strange not having boats passing all the time. We then went to the end turned round and stopped on some other nice mooring we found just down from the others we had stayed on. We stayed there for another couple of days. On one of the days we walked along the 4mile length of the canal that is not open. They are working on it to open it in the future but there are roomers that it may be 10 years before its open. The canal is in 4 sections, there is the first navigable section then the section that they are working on that will eventually join up with another long section that is navigable then there is another short section near the end that is closed. We walked until we met the second navigable part. Seeing how much work needs doing it will be amazing if it’s open in 10years.