Day 2 Monday 22 September.  Birmingham City Centre to Curdworth

We set off from the centre of Birmingham along a short section of the BCN (Birmingham Canal Navigations), leaving our mooring in Gas Street Basin & passing under Broad Street heading through the centre past The Symphony Halls where today they were holding student graduations, Brindley Place & towards the NIA & Old Turn junction where the Birmingham & Fazeley canal meets the BCN

The BCN goes right under Broad Street

The area around The Symphony Halls is always buzzing with people & tourists; I'm sure we must be on some holiday snaps! The green bridge ahead links Brindley Place on the left with The Symphony Halls, the NIA is ahead

The NIA sporting a new look

Ahead we turn right under the bridge onto the Birmingham & Fazeley canal, this canal weaves its way through & under buildings in the heart of city passing down a flight of 13 locks

At the bottom of the flight of locks we reached Aston Junction where we headed down the 11 Aston locks which lead to Salford Junction which is directly under spaghetti junction

Ahead the canal crosses the River Tame with the M6 above

After a further 3 locks at Minworth the canal had entered the countryside again where we chose to moor for the night so we could fire up the barbecue.

This evenings rural mooring

Our BBQ - steak, sausages, courgette & peppers to go with salad & coleslaw

Sunset over the canal

The sun setting through Broad Balk bridge

Today we travelled for around 7 & half hours through 27 locks.