This was our mooring for last night, once tied up
Diana visited Gorety Portuguese shop for cakes and some lovely rice pudding and then Rudens Latvians store for pickled fish.
We were a bit hesitant about going out to eat due to the weather and it turned out to be right. We found an Indian Restaurant, Namaste Kerala quite close to the basin, but when we got there it was really a Takeaway with a couple of tables between the window and the counter, so we bought a takeaway and headed back to the boat. Value for money you will be hard to beat it and the taste, for £22 there was more than enough for two of us. Eating on board and the thunder, lightning and rain started again.
This morning it had to be Playwrights for breakfast,
a bit surprising that half the tables were reserved from 10 o’clock onwards but at least they were free to use before the booked time then into town just to get a couple of items. By the time we left at about 11 two of the other boats had already gone. The company on the other side of the basin have created quite a nice garden right beside the bridge .
There was a very tall tree beside the towpath in someone’s garden, I have photographed it several times, over the years they have slowly been reducing it hight.
The nice mural under the bridge of swans has sadly been defaced by spray paint yobs
Several bridges on the system have cast iron angles and some even have rollers to protect the bridge brickwork from the rub of the boat towing lines when boats were pulled by horses, this bridge has a strategically placed cast iron post to do the job. You can see the groves worn in it.
As you can see from this photo the water levels have improved dramatically since 3 weeks ago.
We stopped at the services at Hawkesbury Junction to unload a shopping trolley that I had rescued from the canal, there was no pound in it and then proceeded through Sutton Stop where there was a volockiy on duty much to my surprise. Clear of the lock we slipped into the water point and had plenty of time to eat lunch (last nights leftovers) before the tank was full, they a couple of hundred yards to moor on the towpath side for the night. At this point we hadn’t got wet, but Diana decided to go for a walk and inspect the fallen trees on the Coventry Canal and we had another thunderstorm. She was more than damp when she got back to the boat.
Today’s Journey
5¾ miles with one lock in 2¾ hours.
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