{"id":4914,"date":"2016-09-25T17:46:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sv-ananda.com\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2020-01-29T08:19:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T13:19:13","slug":"wednesday-sept-21-nantwich-to-middlewich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=4914","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Sept 21 – Nantwich to Middlewich"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early Wednesday morning we set off from Nantwich to head back to Middlewich.<\/p>\n

We spent a good part of the day “counting down” the 30 bridge numbers from Nantwich to Middlewich.
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\nThere are a series of 4 locks in Middlewich. Three are very close together, like stair steps & then the 4th lock, “The Big Lock” is about a kilometer further down the canal.<\/p>\n

There were several boats preparing to go up through the locks & we were headed down. The canal etiquette is for boaters to take turns passing through. A boat will go down and then a boat will go up and that “taking turns” routine continues until all boats have passed through the locks.<\/p>\n

As the last boat was coming up I started a conversation with a gentleman & his daughter & they helped us out when it was our turn to pass down through the 3 locks. When we were done I offered to help them go “up” but they said that they were already moored further down the canal near the Big Lock Pub & were headed in the same direction as us.<\/p>\n

We commented to each other about our canal trips & I mentioned that this trip was part of our 25th wedding anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n

Our new friends Chris & Jennifer joined us later that evening for drinks on board Walton Hall. To our great surprise & delight they showed up with a wedding anniversary card & a bottle of Champagne for us.
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\nHow special is that!? I’ve said it many times before, it’s amazing how many great people you meet on the water.<\/p>\n

We all enjoyed a glass of Champagne & got to know each other a bit better. I explained to Chris & Jennifer that our get together on the boat was a “gamming” session, i.e. boaters getting together having a great conversation & telling each other stories over a few drinks.<\/p>\n

As we were all headed in the same direction over the next few days we agreed to watch for each other & have another gam or two.<\/p>\n

Cheers & thanks again Chris & Jennifer for your thoughtfulness!<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early Wednesday morning we set off from Nantwich to head back to Middlewich. We spent a good part of the day “counting down” the 30 bridge numbers from Nantwich to Middlewich. There are a series of 4 locks in Middlewich. Three are very close together, like stair steps & then the 4th lock, “The Big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-uk-adventure"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ppZJ-1hg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12119,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions\/12119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}