More VIPs come to visit

Thursday and mid morning Martin & Di arrived for a trip on the boat. We set off along the Aire & Calder Navigation on our way to Stanley Ferry for lunch. This is a 5 mile trip with 3 locks so, a couple of hours or so to get there. 

Luckily, all the locks were electronic but we still made sure that Martin had something useful to do. 

Look hard and you will see Di's head right at the front of the boat. When we got to Stanley Ferry it was a case of - no room at the Inn - sorry, mooring. The place was chokka! 

We settled Martin & Di in the pub with the food orders while Brigid and I went off to park the boat. That shows how stressed I was, not park - moor! We don't usually have problems finding a mooring but the canal was packed. No one moving, mind you, just all tied up head to tail for as far as you could see. 

We had a lovely lunch (thanks M&D) and then a leisurely return to Castleford. 

The reflection on the canal was quite magical. 

And here's a picture of the happy visitors. 

Tomorrow we repeat today's journey but move on to Wakefield where we are planning to meet up with Kath. More of that when we get there. 

Thanks Martin & Di for a lovely day together. It's quite refreshing for Brigid to have some intelligent conversation for a change. 😂