BrighterLater

Richard, Thanks for the tips and your handle has reminded me to pick up some Henderson's Relish whilst I'm in God's own county. - Mike

Thanks for your replies. We've decided on the Leeds Liverpool, hoping to cover Saltaire to just above Burnley. If you have a favourite mooring in the Bingley/Saltair section then that would be nice to know. Also, going west after Foulridge Tunnel where does the countryside run out into urban (does it matter?) and is there another good mooring between the tunnel and the top Barrowford lock? Thanks again Mike

Hi - We have two friends from New York visiting us for the last week in July. We plan to spend 4/5 days on the canals. Over the last 10 years we have been on several holidays including Avon Ring, Middlewich to Llangollan, Macclefield , Mon and Brec, Norfolk Broads, and around the Crick area (where good friends keep their own boat). We have never cruised during school holidays, and we are concerned that we would find the most popular routes busy and frustrating. We'd plan to travel for 6 hours a day; so about 100 miles/locks for the planned holiday. From our limited experience our candidates for these 4/5 days would be: 1. The Lancaster Canal, (though the complete absence of locks is not in its favour) 2. Sowerby Bridge up to Todmordon on the Rochdate Canal. 3. 4/5 day on the South Oxford canal (spending a day in Oxford) Will the Rochdale Canal as busy as those I listed above? Sadly Scotland is out as it's too far in the time we have. Any advice would be gratefully received, Mike and Evey