Last night we moored offside from the towpath next to an office block as BW had recommended this for security. From the shouting at some early hour of the morning this seems to have been good advice.
Our plan for the morning was to travel down the Rochdale 9 locks to Castlefield Junction where the main central Manchester moorings can be found. But first we had to meet Denise's sister Angela who arrived by train from Doncaster to spend a few days with us. Once she was on board and had been presented with a windlass and a BW anti-vandal key to unlock the lock gate paddles we could start. The journey itself has been described before - see Blog entry for Thursday 4th June. Again we were impressed by the quantity of water flowing down the canal, over the lock gates, and in places covering the towpath.
John and Joan from Rebecca helped us through the final lock and we arrived after a faster journey than expected at 1:10 at Castlefield where we refilled with water and then moored at one of the last vacant spaces near Rebecca.
After a quick lunch we visited Sainsburys for a monster shop to feed the three of us for the next 4 days.
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