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| Having a break on our walk |
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| Welford Reservoir |
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| Great Crested Grebe |
Yesterday we stayed put and had a leisurely start, then
went out for a walk. We walked up to the
marina and then to the lock. We watched
a boat come through then walked over the lock and took the footpath through the
fields which took us to Welford Village. We walked back down the road and then
turned off right and walked up that road to the car park at Welford
Reservoir. We followed the path around
the reservoir and came to the concrete causeway that spilts this reservoir with
Sulby reservoir. There was a few geese
and ducks on the water and a heron and also a Great Crested Grebe. We followed the path over the causeway and
back around the other side of the reservoir which took us back to the car
park. It was a really nice walk.
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| Causeway between the two reservoirs |
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| Sunset at Welford |
We went back down the road and decided to have lunch in The
Wharf pub. It was really good food and
very generous portions, would thoroughly recommend eating there.
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| Going back through Welford Lock |
We are moving on today, so pulled the boat back to the water
point and filled up and got rid of rubbish etc., then chugged off back up the
arm to the lock.
It was empty and the
gates were open so had to set the lock first, then Kev brought the boat in and
I emptied the lock.
Kev came out of the
lock and came into the side to pick me up. There was a lady walking on the
towpath and she said to Kev it will be your turn to do the next lock and Kev
said yes wish I could but she won’t drive the boat to which she replied well it
looks as if you can’t either!!
Not sure
what she was referring to and it went down like a lead balloon!!
I laughed though!
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| Back at Welford Junction |
On we went and soon we were at the top of the arm. We turned left on the main canal and moored
just along there. We traveled just under two miles today, so it was time for a stop!!
We went for a walk in the afternoon, along the canal to
Bridge 40 and then there is a bridle path which we followed and it takes you through
a golf course, luckily we didn’t get hit by any flying balls and then up a lane
to a road. We walked along there and was
soon in the village of South Kilworth. There
is just a few houses here, a church, a pub and a butchers shop.
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| Bridleway to South Kilworth |
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| Pathway through the golf course |
The butcher is called Joseph Morris and it is all locally
sourced meat and even has its own abattoir.
It is only open 7am to 1pm on a Saturday and as it was after that we
knew it wouldn’t be open but wanted to have a look and would come back on
Tuesday if it looked good. We walked up
by the shop and had a peep in and was just leaving when a man who obviously
worked there came out of one of the buildings and we asked him if he would be
open on Bank Holiday Monday, he said no and we said ok we will come back on
Tuesday. He asked us what we wanted and
we said sausages, bacon, ham, etc., and he said do you want to take it now, we
said we didn’t want to put him out but he said its no bother and took us in the
back of the shop and served us with sausages which had been made this morning,
home cured bacon, pork chops, home cured ham, home-made pork pie and a few
other things and it was all very reasonably priced and looked great, can’t wait
to try it all.
What a really nice man, couldn’t believe he offered to serve
us when they had been closed a couple of hours, but we were glad he did as now
we can try their products and if really nice as I think they will be, we can go
back up again on Tuesday.
We walked back to the canal and just chilled out for the
rest of the day. We are staying here a
couple of days now as don’t want to be travelling this weekend it being bank
holiday and will be busy no doubt.
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