Short journey to Stone

 Only about six miles today on our way to Stone but there were also three locks to go through. 

 

A view forward as we cast off at about 11 o'clock. 

I think this is Salt Bridge and it's so ornamental that we wondered if it was made that way to appease a local landowner. Quite often architectural features were included in the canal design to smooth the way for cutting across someone's land. 

This is a very pretty canal. However, each of our logbooks say the same thing. Very pretty canal - but we don't really remember any of it. Possibly that's because it's all trees and fields, sheep and cattle. The archetypal British countryside. 

And, talking of sheep! 

We arrived at Stone at about 4 o'clock. We decided to moor just before the town so that we didn't have to go through the locks today. 

After tying up the boat we went into town and made our way to the Secret Café. 

The last time we came here was three years ago. Nothing's changed.

Hot chocolate and all the naughty bits for me and tea for the captain in a nice china cup. We also had a bite to eat after which we made our way back to the boat. Enough for one day!