Gallo Pinto (spotted cock) for breakfast. Ideally it should include onion and tomato sauce and it is a traditional dish from Central America. Consisting of rice and beans as a base, gallo pinto has a long history and is important to various Latin American cultures. We set off at 10am from Hockley Heath and chugged down to Waring’s Green Wharf to fill up with diesel.
We passed a kingfisher sitting on a branch on our port side and it flew over our boat. Photo courtesy of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Suddenly there was a clang and we discovered that our dog tiller pin had fallen in half and half of it bounced into the canal.
We brought our reserve fox cub tiller pin into play and continued to the water point just passed bridge 5 at Warstock where we moored up. We have been chugging through the outskirts and suburbs of Birmingham with canalside gardens in various states of repair. Many have decking and mooring points for a small boat.
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