Tewkesbury to Worcester (River Severn)

We were getting ready to set off this morning when Kevin just had a check in the engine and found that the fuel filter bracket had come away from the engine, the bolts had somehow unscrewed, but Kev managed to refit it.  We can’t really understand how this happened as they had to unscrew upwards, but they did, lucky we saw it before we set off.

Mythe Bridge

Passing Upton Upon Severn

We set off from Tewkesbury up the River Severn towards Worcester and soon we were going underneath the single 170ft-span of the cast iron Mythe Bridge, built by Thomas Telford in 1828.  It was sunny when we set off but during our trip we had a couple of really heavy showers with sleet and hail, lucky we have our pram cover to keep us dry!  It was really cold as well, the wind was biting.  Up past Upton Upon Severn and on up the river we went and until after a few hours we were approaching Diglis Lock.  There are two locks at Diglis a small one and a big one and usually we go in the small one but today we went in the big one, not sure why but we went up the lock very gently and soon we were going out of the lock.

Approaching Diglis Locks

We stopped to get water just outside the lock then moored on the visitor moorings pontoon before the locks into Worcester basin.

Moored with Worcester Cathedral in distance

We had some lunch, then went up into Worcester and had a walk around the shops and came back to the boat along the River path, it turned out to be a nice sunny afternoon and did warm up a bit.

We are staying here now for a few days and on Sunday we are off to Stratford Upon Avon as there is a festival of cars where all the classic cars park up in the streets and Steve and Ian will be there with their Morgans, we are looking forward to seeing them and looking around all the cars, should be good.

Moored at Worcester