BUT FIRST...On our way out of town we went looking for a statue of Peter Pan in a park...and found it...near here.
But the area was closed and the security guy wouldn't let us in to "just take a picture of the Peter Pan statue". We were disappointed and plotted whether to wait 20 minutes or move on. A few moments later the guard said HE could take the picture for us. Brilliant!
Back on the road again and with the aqueduct programmed into the GPS in 90 minutes we found our mark.
We found lunch in the little town and then boarded our canal boat for the trip over the aqueduct.
The trip was along a narrow canal with views similar to those we encountered on OUR canal boat trip.
After 30 minutes we reached the actual aqueduct. Wide enough for only one direction at a time.
The canal was built by Thomas Telford in 1805 and at 126' above the River Dee and 1007' long it is the highest and longest aqueduct in Britain.
We crossed over slowly with spectacular views across the valley floor and back to the bridge that we were at only an hour ago.
When we reached the other side our boat turned around and then pulled over to let everyone out. We were bused the few miles back to the town and Karen and I shopped around the town for awhile.
We recovered our car and headed for the beginning of the aqueduct so we could walk over it and take better pictures.
It was a fun little adventure to find, see, ride on, and walk across this most unusual aqueduct.
We drove off and headed for the night's stay about 3 hours away passing the Atlantic Ocean on our right.
And just to confirm that we aren't in England anymore we saw this in a town in Wales. The name means "the little card shop by the bridge over the river Dee in Llangollen"
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