Sunday 12 August 2012

Quickie

This canal from Calveley to Chester is absolutely gorgeous, but has two drawbacks. The mobile signals are very erratic, and the locks are a bare 70' long, although broad. We've stopped for the day at Wharton's Lock, about halfway to Christleton. There's no 3 signal, a measly T-mobile one, and a bit of Vodafone.

I've got some photos to show, but it's no good trying to upload them here.

We should have a much better connection tomorrow, so I'll stop this post now, and get a proper one done tomorrow, hopefully.

This afternoon, we plan to attempt the climb to Beeston Castle...

2 comments:

Andrew said...

Do you just run a mobile phone for each mobile service ? Just thinking the BBC used a box full of sim cards to find the best if any 3G signal.

Bruce in Sanity said...

Hi

All of our phones are locked to the relevant service, so we tend to fire up whichever ones we think are going to work.

They always seem to want me to take a new phone before I'm tired of the old one, but of course they like the excuse to tie you into another contract.

It does save fiddling about with SIMs, or trying to keep track of which ones are which!

All the best

Bruce