Delays due to rain - up the Staffs & Worcester to Wolverley

Yesterday there was no blog as we decided to have a quiet day staying in Stourport. We were both tired from the journey on Saturday and also we may have been affected by the heat. I finished my end of July Open University assignment and Denise made things out of beads.

Waiting at Falling Sands Lock

Caldwell Lock

We awoke this morning to rain. Cant really complain as its the first we have seen for some time. It finally stopped at 11am so we set off north up the Staffs & Worcester canal. When we arrived at the first lock there were 5 boats ahead of us waiting to go through. It seems everybody whad been waiting for the rain to stop. It took us about an hour to get through.

We stopped at Tesco in Kidderminster as it is next to the canal (as is Sainsburys) at 13:40 much later than we had planned, hungry because we hadn't had chance for a lunch and unable to do anything about it because we were out of supplies. An hour's monster shop sorted that out so we are OK for the next 4-5 days.

After a quick Tesco sandwich we moved on to moor at Wolverley which the guidebook recommends as an interesting village. We will have a look round in the morning.