Okay, so we’re on a new a new venture. We have some folding bikes, a folding canoe that can sit on a folding trailer. This might not seem very normal. So, we’ve got plans to sort of like cross Scotland and on a mixture of bikes and canoeing, across locks and stuff like that. So, as a a sort of trial run, we thought we would canoe and cycle from Portsmouth to London. following the old route that was there was an inland route that connected London to Portsmouth to carry gunpowder and guns. Where have we been so far, Walter? Well, we’ve got the train um from cycle to station. uh got the train from Chicha to South with our so this is with our bikes and a trailer behind with a folded up canal on it and then we cycle through some of South Sea through following the line of the old canal although it’s covered over now there’s a railway line and the streets you can still still see the street names um which relates to the canal. And there’s a what was an old pub. It’s now a block of flat that still looks like an old pub, but it’s called the old canal. And then carried along where the canal would have gone to Milton Locks, which is where there’s a couple of pubs there. Must have been quite a dock there. And that’s where you the lock that takes you into Langston Harbor. And we’ve assembled our canoe, which took about an hour, and then walked the canoe out to the water and and packed with all our stuff carefully. Yeah. So, with the tide’s taking us up up to Langston, up to the Hailing Island Bridge, then we can cross into Chester Harbor. And the route up to London is from Chester Harour. You then can get into the Chester Canal and then work your way up the canal and of course that’s where we live. So we can stay there the night tonight hopefully if we make it that far. Hopefully we will. And then tomorrow we we head towards the Aaron which we might walk that bit because you can’t actually you can actually follow the canal nearly all the way on footpaths. It’s actually the old toe path. So I think we’re going to walk that bit to the river Aaron. That’s about 10 miles. And then we start to pick up the river Aaron up as far as you can go. I mean it was navigable all the way to the river way but obviously there’s quite a lot of bits missing so we’ll have to cycle those bits and then we pick up the river way the way navigation then that joins into the temps hopefully we’re going to get to Putney bridge that’s where we’re planning to get out but it take quite a few days to get that part we’ll be camping on the way we’ve got all our kit with us that’s the last bit of the tide you how many miles do you reckon we got what to go Yeah. Three. Yeah. Probably about 3 or 4 miles and the tide’s going to start coming against us. Yeah. That’s going to be bad. It’s going to be really bad. I just got to hope. Yeah. Well, we got past it now. Yeah, that’s good. A breeze here. Yeah, there isn’t.
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