Day 84/365: Wherever I go, I seem to end up on a canal

[nanila]

View from the canal barge party boat heading into the final lock on the Leeds & Liverpool canal.

I survived the 40th birthday party last night, mostly by dint of drinking lime and sodas all evening. The highlight of the party was the three-hour canal barge trip down the Leeds & Liverpool canal via several massive locks. It was a delightful venue and an interesting journey. We had a grand time visiting with all the bloke's old uni mates. I snuck off into a cab at 11:30 PM and was therefore nice and fresh for child care this morning.

Home now. Tired and happy.

Comments

[legionseagle]

I'm guessing that's at the Liverpool end. It's still doing a good job at looking like Amsterdam, which neither Liverpool nor Leed do normally, whichever end it's at.

Glad it was such a great event.

[nanila]

It was in Leeds, looking toward Armsley Mill, I believe?

[legionseagle]

Wow! They have done something interesting with it then.

[pbristow]

"Wherever I go, I seem to end up on a canal"

Well, better on than in. =;o}

[nanila]

Ha, yes! I've not yet been in the canal. The bloke has - on purpose, when his sister's phone fell out of her pocket into the canal. (He didn't find the phone.)

[cmcmck]

Also a lot of canals in these parts- and a lot of canal restoration going on.

[nanila]

Stoppage season is finished for our canal, but the CART people are still doing a fair bit of work on the locks just down the way from us...

[mysterysquid]

I so like the idea of canals, they're not really a thing in Australia.

[nanila]

I guess they wouldn't be the most efficient way to move things around such long distances? The rail system must have been far more useful.