Our Stay at Crick

Saturday 8^th and Sunday 9^th August

We decided to stay in Crick for a couple of days.  On Saturday we walked up to the village, past the Co-op and walked to the other end of the village where the church is. There is also a pub this end of the village called The Royal Oak which apparently had been shut for a few weeks but had been taken over by new people and had a refit and was back open again, so we decided to go in for a drink, it was done out very nice, but it was very chaotic, the two people serving didn’t seem to know where anything was and they had hardly any glasses, etc.

We went and sat in the garden which was nice and the chap came out and we had a chat with him.  We asked if they would be doing food and he didn’t seem to know, he said well not sure yet probably even if its only paninis! It was nicely done out but I don’t think we would go in there again as they didn’t seem to know what they wanted to be, either a drinking pub but the décor was too posh for that or a food pub, not sure if they will do very well seeing as there are already three established pubs in the village doing okay.

We carried on down the road over the bypass and then saw a footpath on our right, so we went down there and it took us to Crick Jubilee Wood.  It is an area of about 12 acres and has a nature trail, picnic areas and benches. The Parish Council bought three connecting fields which sit under Cracks Hill and decided to convert the fields into woodland to mark the Diamond Jubilee.  Around 7,000 trees have been planted.

It is a really lovely place, we walked through there and it brought us back to the canal at Bridge 13, so we walked back up the canal to the boat.

Sunday we decided to do the walk again but this time started off walking down the towpath to Bridge 13 and walked around a different bit which was up a bit of a hill but there was a seat at the top and the view was lovely.  We walked around the wood and ended up in the village again, went to the co-op for a few supplies, then back to the boat.

We went for Sunday lunch at The Moorings bar/restaurant on the canal and it was lovely.  They do a two course lunch for £12.95.  For the main course there was a choice of three roast meats, beef, pulled pork and lamb and you could have just one, two or three meats, so Kev and I had pulled pork and lamb and it came with roast potatoes, a Yorkshire pudding and vegetables.  It was really good, one of the best Sunday lunches we have had for a while.

We sat outside on the canal while we ate our lunch, which was really nice as it was warm and sunny and a few boats went by.

We are moving on tomorrow, just up the canal to a middle of nowhere spot.

The Moorings Bar/Restaurant