We of course we ate in the Dog and Doublet last night with the oriental menu from Peter’s Wok Kitchen. During the early evening this raft arrived and was moored outside the pub, it was still there when we left this morning.
A hire boat came up the flight before we left so locks 9 and 10 were with us, unfortunately the bottom lock was against us.he lock cottage now has a converted horse box in their garden selling coffee and snacks, The gates were closed when we came up so I guess its only open weekend.
Something I have never noticed before is the Ordinance Survey Bench Mark on the top of the lock stone work. Its the first I have seen on a horizontal surface, all the rest have been on vertical ones.
So far we had not met any boats and we didn’t meet any until we got to Grendon although we did see one go past at Fazeley Junction. On our way out we passed a CRT work boat moored at Minworth who were cutting offside vegetation, today it was half way between Curdworth Bottom and Fazeley Junction.
When we arrived at Glascote the top gate of the bottom lock was open and a boat was going up it the top lock, what I couldn't see was a boat waiting to come down and turned the lock. I apologised most profusely to the boater coming down. Once up the locks we started meeting boats.
Our original plan for today was to stop at Alvecote but as the weather was so nice we carried on to Polesworth.
Todays Journey 9¾ miles with 5 locks in 4½ hours
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