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| Starting down the six locks |
We are moving on today down six locks, onto the Lapworth link
at Kingswood Junction and onto the Grand Union Canal.
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| Heave Ho, here we go again! |
It was overcast as we set off to the first lock. It was set for us as a boat had just come up
so we were soon through there and onto the next one. We had done a couple of locks when two
volunteer lock keepers came up the towpath and so the next few were easy as we
had help. We stopped at the waterpoint
to fill up which today seemed to take for ever.
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| Coming out another lock |
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| Our friendly lock keeper |
There were two hire boats following us and they went by and
into the next lock, we then found out that they wanted water as well but they
never said so had to get it at the junction where there was a bit of a queue
for the waterpoint, but that was their problem, there was plenty of room in
front of us for one of them to moor up!
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| Along the Lapworth link we go |
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| Birmingham this way |
We went through two more locks with the friendly lock
keepers helping and on along the Lapworth link and out onto the Grand Union
canal where we turned left and moored just along there in the visitor moorings. We haven’t been this way before so now it is
all new to us, how exciting!
We had lunch which was the Dexter pie we bought yesterday at
the farm shop and it was delicious, as good as last time and maybe even better.
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| Grand Union Canal |
We then went for a walk up the Grand Union to walk off the
pie, we were only going for a short stroll on the flat, but we walked up a
couple of bridges then Kev looked on Google and said we could do a circle so
off we went up onto the bridge and up a lane called Rising lane and it was true
to its name, up a hill we went, so much for a walk on the flat!! We then took another lane which went downhill and eventually back to the Stratford
canal, back down the towpath and onto the Grand Union and back to the boat,
altogether probably about 2 miles or so and I only went out for a short
stroll!!
We are staying here tonight and tomorrow as well as we are
catching a train to Leamington Spa so looking forward to that.
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| Moored at Kingswood Junction, Grand Union Canal |
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