Free at last! After a good night's rest and a lovely hot shower this morning we prepared Steadfast for an escape from the marina. Centre lines on check, water tank filled (eventually), check, mooring pins to hand, check engine fired up (a steam analogy I think) moorings lines untied and we slip out of our berth.
A glorious sunny day as we headed south towards Wolverhampton. Plenty of boats about including three that we met a bridge holes! We navigated the Pendleford narrows without meeting anyone and the three boats that were tailing us turned onto the Shropshire Union as we continued on the Staffs and Worcs.
Continuing on to Compton and our first lock we were planning moor below the lock for a quick run to the Sainsburys Local that is conveniently sited for passing boat traffic. Here I realised that my shopping bags had been left in the car so had to make do with what could be found on Steadfast. Anyway I was able to get food to see us through the next few days. We lunched and then continued our journey through the next two locks and moored at Wightwick for the night.
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