We are only going a few miles today so we had a fairly late start
and chugged off along the canal in lovely sunshine and it was quite warm as
well, which makes a nice change!!
There was a boat in front of us and I am sure Sammy Snail
was steering as they were going even slower than we do and Kev had to keep
going into neutral and up behind us came another boat and I think this time
Lewis Hamilton was steering, he didn’t want to wait and wanted to get past us
but as we said to him, there is a boat immediately in front of us going really
slow so he won’t get anywhere and the stretch of canal we were on wasn’t
exactly wide for passing and there was a steady stream of boats coming the
other way, so he did stay behind us but wasn’t happy. Sammy Snail eventually pulled over so we
could go past and the idiot behind us speeded up and almost went into the back
of us, but pulled back just in time. We
went on along the canal and then he didn’t seem to want to go so fast and was
quite a way behind us, people are very strange.
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| Passing under the M45 |
We carried on along the canal and soon we were going under
the M45, past Barby moorings marina, around a bend and we moored at the top of
Hillmorton locks.
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| Cafe at Badsleys Wharf |
We had lunch then went for a walk down two locks to the café at Badsleys Wharf. We had a coffee and homemade lemon drizzle
cake, which was really good, sat in the garden by the canal.
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| Tunnel under the Railway |
We then walked up the road to see where the Aldi was, its
about a half hour walk from the canal and you have to walk through a short tunnel under the railway line
We were told by another boater that it was closed for refurbishment at
the moment, but they are putting on a bus to the Aldi in Rugby, so we went for
a recky as we thought we might catch that bus tomorrow if we could find out
where it went from. Before we went for
our walk, I rang Aldi and they said the bus was running Friday, Saturday and
Sunday on the hour from 9am to 5pm. We
found the Aldi store okay and then walked along the road to Hillmorton village
where there is a couple of pubs, a post office, a co-op and a few other shops. We
then carried on walking and Kev found the way from there back to the canal so
we did a circular walk rather than go back the way we had come.
We are staying here now for a couple of days before we head
off down the locks.
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| Moored at Hillmorton |
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