From Crick back to Stoke-on Trent

We finished off our third day at the at the Crick Boat Show with a couple of lectures. I had to convince Rachael that it was a good idea to go back to the boat show for a third day, especially since it had rained overnight and was raining lightly when we left the hotel. We had had enough of the mud and slush even after a bright sunny day the day before.

I had lined up three or four lectures over the three days but this hadn't materialised so I convinced Rachael that we should attend two lectures today and then we could head off to Stoke-on-Trent. I could see the keenness in her eyes when I mentioned that the lectures we were going to were 'Diesel engine maintenance' and 'So you want to live on a narrow boat'. We nearly made it through both lectures when she passed a note to me which read 'Kill me now'. We promptly left and headed for Stoke, confident we had all the information we could.

Tuesday at Stoke-on-Trent, Rachael was in her element, we toured four different pottery outlets. The Wedgewood and Royal Dolton Outlet seemed to be her favourite. This turned out to be a scouting trip for some new crockery that caught her eye, thus keeping the credit card account in tact; for now.

We are back at Stoke-on-Trent ready for the boat survey tomorrow (Wednesday), we will let you all know how it goes in our post tomorrow.

Crick - Day three