HASSALL GREEN, LOCK 57
..........better late in this life than early in the next. There is very little chance of this adage apply to us at present.
We have booked a Sunday roast at Lockside 57 brasserie for tomorrow. We arrived at the moorings nearby this morning at 9.15am. This gave us the perfect reason to call in and have a breakfast; which we enjoyed sitting at an outside table overlooking the lock. We feel the need to get away from the canal environment now and again in order to maintain a balance.
There is a view from the previous lock, encompassing transport contrasts where the M6 motorway crosses the Trent & Mersey canal. The M6 was open in this section by 1966; the Trent and Mersey canal predated it considerably, being opened in 1777 (and it has not needed resurfacing)
On a previous occasion, passing through this lock, our boat was seen from the motorway by a friend who is a boat owning lorry driver, he complained that we did not wave to him!
We now have 26 hours to wait before taking up our booking. I have started another book, as has Myra. We will sit and watch the boats go by whilst we bask in the sunshine.
