Locks in strange places seems to be a feature on this canal.

The approach to Huddersfield is hard work and at times discouraging.

We navigate a short canal with more than its share of surprises.

We continue to keep up to our schedule, and avoid the worst of the weather.

After more than three years aboard we come across mechanisms unlike any we’ve seen before.

The sun is doing a great job of lighting up our lives, though there are signs of autumn all around.

We travel in the sunshine towards uncertainty.

Avoiding being caught in a flood can be as easy as doing nothing.

Crossing the border to Berwick-upon-Tweed, a town that has swapped between Scotland and England many times, like us.

Blue skies, autumn sunshine and eye testing in Edinburgh.