Sometime ago when visiting Coventry we happened to chance on a lovely Indian restaurant called Turmeric Gold. Its far from the cheapest we have visited, but its good, so we went again last night. There are some nice touches like a small fruit drink when you arrive and a canapé before the main course and rounded off at the end with a couple of grapes soaked in something. You have probably guessed we went there last night.
Last night was the coldest so far with a good frost and in the shade the grass was still white.
Unusually for us, after getting well stuffed last night we skipped the full English breakfast and set off in bright sunshine. Today was a day of reflections with a mirror like water surface and low angle sun light.
When we have come this way in the past we have often looked at what we thought was a disused chimney at Bates Timber, but today there was smoke coming out of it.
Most people will know that the canal bridges in Birmingham had holes put in them during the war for the fire brigade to draw water , but some of Coventry bridges were the same.
When this was an industrial area there were lots of storm drains discharging straight into the canal, now its a large housing estate I wonder if they have been capped off.
At Hawkesbury Junction a boat had just come through the lock so it was with us, we just had to hold back a couple of minutes while the last fishermen of the day reeled in, we have seen more today than in the past few weeks.
We were now on the North Oxford canal making our way towards Braunston. As the weather was turning a bit cooler we decided to stop about 2 miles before Ansty against a short length of pilling well away from the motorway.
Today’s Journey
8 miles with 1 lock in 3 hours
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