August 2023 – Lost dog and diner out at Ju Ju’s Cafe

I know this is not very special, but another late start and after some coffees from Nero and 4 of us showered we finally managed to emptyed our water tank. But before we refill we decide to head to McD’s for breakfast, just making it before the 11am cut off (its relatively cheap and you have to love the hash browns).

On the way back Mary and I found a DJI shop ( 2-6 Corporation Street, B2 4RN) with lots of interesting gadgets, I could not resist the Oslo Mobile 6 Smartphone Stabiliser (Approval was sort from the boss before purchase, I’d not that stupid). On the way back we stop off for a quick photo on the Black Sabbath Bridge, it is not often clear of tourists.

While the rest of the group then headed to The Birmingham Sealife centre, which is just the other side of the canal, I decided to stay, write some of the blog and then have to hunt for the dog who has taken himself off for a walk. He does not get far, I am told he visited the Lego centre and then was captured by the kind people at  Sommar which is a microbrewery just above us, they found my number on his collar and call me, but in my panic I had left my phone on the boat, but I soon returned and got their voicemail. Obi (The dog), is very please with himself having been well looked after, but is pleased to see me and follows me back to the boat then under my stern glares he quickly falls asleep in his favourite place under the table.

When the others returned, we start the engine and reverse with the assistants on some crew on the lines to the canal roundabout, before chugging to the water point, just opposite The Cube and just outside Noel’s Bar and Restaurant and we moored while we waited for another boat to complete filling up.

After we had filled our tank, we then reversed back and moored up again at the 4 day moorings.

I did notice that the leisure batteries where a bit lower than I expected, but as we were going out tonight and as we planned a ½ days chugging tomorrow, I hopped going to be a problem.

That evening we had wanted to go to Dishoon, an Indian restaurant highly recommended by Jason (Sonia’s No.2 son) who was joining us that evening, unfortunately we could not get a table booking at a convenient time. I then did a quick dive into trip-advisor and somehow found a small restaurant call Ju Ju’s Cafe that looked interesting, most of my family seemed think I was nuts, but we had an truly excellent meal, which did contain an extraordinary amount of garlic, but we are all family on the boat , high recommended.

August 2023 – Part 1 – A little adventure, Droitwich to Birmingham
August 2023 – Part 2 – A really Tardebigge adventure
August 2023 – Part 3 – Birmingham Engine Lows and Highs
August 2023 – Part 4 – Lost dog and diner out at Ju Ju’s Cafe
August 2023 – Part 5 – Screwfix almost saves the day