Friday
Cloudy. Bit of a dull day. Went from near Brinklow to Hartshill and moored outside The Anchor. Didn’t see many boats. Not a lot happened. Day enlivened by the wondrous sight that is Charity Dock, near Bedworth. Apparently it is a great place to get repairs and things done to your boat, but it’s more famous for its weird and wonderful collection of “characters”
After the briefest of stops at Nuneaton for “essentials”, we arrived at the Anchor at 3.10, spent the afternoon “chillin’” and enjoyed a great steak and chips there in the evening.
Saturday
We were up by 7.30 but 5 minutes later it started raining, and it carried on for six & a half hours. Throughout the morning we were saying “shall we move? no”, then “it’s getting a bit brighter” “we’ll make a decision at 1” followed by “we’ll make a decision at 1.30”. Just after we’d said “we’ll stay put” the rain stopped and the sun came out! So we set off for Atherstone, wanting to get the 11 locks behind us. Lock 1 was great, ready filled for us and it was sunny
By lock 2, which we had to fill, the heavens had opened again. Luckily this shower was short and sharp, but from then on all the locks were against us, ie empty, and filling every one became tedious as these locks are notoriously “slow to fill and quick to empty”. No wonder I was fed up!
(Brian said I wouldn’t publish that one!)
Finally exiting the last lock at 5.45, we looked for a good mooring, which we eventually found just as a thunderstorm started. Tomorrow will be better, they say.
No comments:
Post a Comment