The Tardebigge Locks

Tardebigge, on the Birmingham & Worcester Canal, is a Very Important Place for English canal afficionados. It's where you go up the biggest number of locks along a small length of canal. You navigate through 30 locks in fact, and descend (or ascend) a total of 67m in 3.6km. The people doing it told me it was quite hard work!

I was just taking a walk along the towpath though. Some of the best (and I imagine the easiest) English bushwalks are along canal towpaths, and there are lots of them. Soon after I left England canal boat holidays became immensely popular. Canals were renovated, boat hire became big business, and prices went up. I still haven't done my canal boat holiday, but who knows.......?

During my short walk I chatted with people aboard the two boats that came by. And one couple turned out to live in Turramurra in Sydney - not far from me! They seemed a bit startled by this coincidence, but I'm sort of used to it.