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We headed off before 9 on Sunday morning, and made brisk progress along the empty canal to Wolverhampton, arriving at about 11. Here begins the long flight of 21 narrow locks down off the Black Country plateau to the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal.
We locked down fairly briskly and arrived at the bottom by mid-afternoon. Having decided that we didn’t fancy the look of the one rather tired pub near the supermarket (aside to Wolverhampton businesspeople – a pub somewhere close to this important three-canal junction would make a mint!), we considered curry in Wolverhampton. At this point I got a text from James and Amy on Lucky Duck, saying that they’d passed Innocenti while we were out. I suggested to an already tired Nicola that we might go and help them back up the Wolverhampton locks, and she (spurred on by thoughts of curry) agreed. The run back to Wolverhampton was very brisk indeed, and we then availed ourselves of a copious curry (“largest naans in Wolverhampton”) at Jirvan’s Balti House before I took Nicola to the station and went back to the boat by bus.

Day 41: 8 miles and 21 locks (plus another 21 helping Lucky Duck…)

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 at 8:41 pm and is filed under Narrowboat.