Newbold

Just a quick one for anyone who visits Moors Bridge by cad, the road on the offside now has a barrier across it so  you have  to turn back and go under the railway .

 

As expected it rained over night, so that mixed with the train traffic lead to a somewhat disturbed sleep. This morning we waited until the rain stopped and then set off, mistake, by the time we reached the top lock it was throwing it down, you could hardly see the middle lock. By the time we were through the lock it had eased but carried on raining all the way down. This little boat has sunk on the long term moorings between the middle and bottom lock.

Also in that pound and almost opposite the floating Blacksmith with his interestingly shaped butty.

Belong the bridge there are Share boats moored two abreast, I expect the owners are paying for secure offline moorings. Almost as soon as we cleared the bottom lock the rain stopped. A short way passed the locks we passed a boat with a sign warning about cats on board and this one even popped out as we passed to keep an eye on us.

Our next port of call was Rugby, to visit Tesco for a few essentials,  the towpath is a real muddy mess along here but luckily we were able to moor opposite one of the entrances to the housing estate so only needed to cross it and not trug down it to the bridge. We were here a couple of hours including eating lunch but when we set off a little after 2pm. it was very overcast and looked much later. We made our way to Newbold where a chap under the bridge was waving at us, he collects boat numbers just like some collect train numbers, he had spotted us earlier but was too slow to get the number so he came to Newbold to intercept us. We have moored for the night on the visitor moorings and will be eating in the pub tonight, I think the last time we visited there was a pub each side of the lane.

Today’s Journey

4½ miles with 3 locks in 2¼ hours