Planning ahead

If we can’t do as many journeys as we’d like then I think the next best thing will be to plan future ones. After the success of the FGLMT 2008 I think the next major expedition wil be the Leicester Ring for two weeks next summer. Before that there’s a smaller possibility closer to home; we live in Heanor and moor in Nottingham, so an obvious choice will be the length of the Erewash Canal, passing places like the Gallows Inn that we drive past every day while commuting to work.

At a relaxed pace it should take four days, and we can either do it in one chunk or park a car at Langley Mill on a Friday and drive the other one to Nottingham to do the outward leg over the weekend. We then moor the boat up and take the first car (‘here’s one I prepared earlier’) to pick up the one in Nottingham so that we can go to work during the week, and repeat in reverse the following weekend. Hardly ideal but potentially a lot of fun.

I’ll give it some thought & report back; there are a couple of mini-projects I’d like to build into this. Hmmm …