We set off from Wheelock very early as we had a lot of locks to get through today. 14 locks in all so I spent most of the day walking between locks. The weather was lovely and sunny and we were making excellent progress. The Cheshire countryside was beautiful as we meandered our way towards our overnight stay at Rode Heath. However then disaster struck, we went into our 13th lock of the day and for some reason we got stuck in the lock. There must have been something at the bottom of the lock as we became beached and could not go back or forward. Thankfully there were two other boats waiting to use the locks and they came to help us. We finally had to be towed out of the lock by another boat. It was pretty scary trying to move the boat as I had to climb into the lock down the metal stairs and eventually had to drive the boat as it was being towed as John had to pull on our mooring ropes. We managed to get free and as these were duplicate single locks, one side by side we had to use the other side to try to get up the canal. Thankfully we were fine and managed to get to Rode Heath. Rode Heath turned out to be the best mooring so far, we were moored by some picnic benches and also a lovely big meadow which led to a river where you could walk the dogs. Eren could go off the lead and Georgie was on the long lead so they had loads of fun leaping in the grass. As always we moored near a nice pub called the Broughton Arms which again was dog friendly. We had lunch there and a couple of drinks and then went back to the boat. The weather was so nice we were able to sit out on the picnic benches with a glass of vino in the evening.
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