The Montgomery Canal to Welshpool

Today we had our second easy day, an official 10.5 miles which we managed
to extend to 14 miles with a few small detours to other places of interest to us. This really was a flat day with only about 30 metres of ascent.

We started off going the wrong way along the Montgomery Canal as we wanted to see how far the restoration work had got. We strolled along until the canal ran out and the derelict section of canal started. It was sad to see; if Eddie had been here he would have been quite upset.

Here I am standing on the towpath looking at what should be canal ...


We itched to get our paws started on clearing, but today was not the day, we had a walk to continue.

We have named this leg of the walk the dairy milk (cow) walk, as we walked through fields and fields of young friesian cows as we followed the course of the river Severn, in its early stretches. It seemed to be a bit of a game for the cows to gather in the gateways we needed to go through, and forging a passage wasn't always easy.

It wasn't the most exciting walking and several people we met weren't enjoying it, but we weren't unhappy, even though the rutted path (from all those hooves) wasn't the easiest to walk on.

We have struck gold with our B&B tonight. We're staying at Moors Farm near Buttington where the rooms are fabulous (lovely big bed with wool blankets) and our hostess delightful. She's driven us down to a curry house in Welshpool and we will walk back shortly along the Montgomery Canal. We can help ourselves to drinks in return for a donation to the Air Ambulance. What a great idea and generous gesture. We feel duty bound to participate.

Lots of love, George, Gio and Yorkie xxx

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