点评:Have to admit to being a bit nervous at the start of the week (I hadn't done this before, partner had but a while ago), but the handover we got was comprehensive without being an information overload and the bloke doing it came with us as as far as the lift bridges to check we'd got the hang of things.
Can't fault Anglo-Welsh for being helpful - we managed to knacker the steering (our fault, we reversed hard when we probably shouldn't have), and the mechanic turned up amazingly quickly, especially when you consider how far he had to walk from the nearest road access. We rocked up at the AW base at Trevor on an already busy day and asked for water and a pump-out (not sure it needed doing, but we don't have the experience to tell) and they got to us within a few minutes despite being up to here in boats already.
The journey itself was well worth doing - the Pontcysyllte aqueduct is rightly famous, but the Chirk aqueduct and neighbouring tunnel are also well worth visiting. We also fitted in side trips to the end of the Montgomery Canal (the restoration works at the far end were interesting), and into Whitchurch. All good fun, and would happily hire from AW again.
翻译:不得不承认,在本周开始时我有点紧张(我以前没有这样做过,我的搭档只是在不久前才这样做过),但我们得到的交接很全面,没有信息过载,做这件事的家伙陪我们走到升降桥,检查我们是否掌握了情况。
不能责怪盎格鲁-威尔士人的帮助——我们设法弄坏了方向盘(我们的错,我们猛烈地倒车,而我们可能不应该这样做),机械师很快就出现了,尤其是当你考虑到他必须从最近的道路入口走多远的时候。在一个已经很忙的日子里,我们来到了特雷弗的 AW 基地,要求供水和抽水(不确定是否需要这样做,但我们没有经验来判断),他们在几分钟内就到了我们身边,尽管我们已经乘船到这里了。
这次旅行本身非常值得——Pontcysyllte 渡槽确实很有名,但 Chirk 渡槽和邻近的隧道也非常值得一游。我们还顺便去了蒙哥马利运河的尽头(运河尽头的修复工作很有趣),以及惠特彻奇。一切都很有趣,很乐意再次从 AW 租车。