Robert and Mary left us this morning. Considering all the complications of taxi's meeting buses, walking between bus and railway stations in Birmingham with a tight schedule to catch the train, they took a Taxi to Stratford on Avon. We have forgotten how close places are. We travel all day for what can be done in a taxi in 10 minutes or so.
Soon after they had left Dave arrived to give the boat an oil change, fix a cable & repack the drive shaft. Thats the only opening below the water line so it's good to know its done. This took most of the day so spent the night outside The King Head.
Monday 12 July. 2 miles, 5 locks.
Provisioned up at the local supermarket and then headed up the last 5 locks before 90 miles lock free. Guess who's pleased about that. As we went into the 5th lock the drizzle of the morning turned to rain.
Stopped for lunch a couple of miles down the track and decided we didn't need to keep doing this in the rain. Stayed the night.
Tuesday 13 July. 10 miles, 0 locks.
An overcast morning enticed us to move on so down the Coventry and turn into the Ashby Canal. Back into the country now with fields, trees, animals & birds, just the way we like it. Stop for lunch, down comes the rain again. After a while it eases up so on we go knowing we come back this way and hopefully it will be fine on the return. Stopped tonight at Hinckley not far from LE10 3ED.
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