Friday 13th September 2019



After an exhausting overnight flight, we landed in Heathrow at 04:40. Neither of us had slept. We caught the TFL tube to Paddington and then transferred to Euston where we had to wait an hour for a train to Lichfield.

It was not until after 3pm that we arrived back on the boat. We were both absolutely dead on our feet. It had not been a relaxing holiday, but well worth the effort. We had seen and done so much and it will take some time to digest it all.

The state of the boat brought us both to earth with a bump. The solar panels and wooden coal platform had been stored on the bed and, while the electric shore power cable had been connected, the inverter had not been switched on. This caused the batteries to drain and the fridge/freezer to trip. All the meat in the freezer had defrosted and the boat was stinking.

We had to set-too, change the bedding, dump all the food from the fridge/freezer and then clean both it and all the dried blood from the floor. Not what we wanted to come back to.

After showers, we both collapsed into an early bed.

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