Upton-Upon-Severn to Worcester (River Severn)

We set off this morning to Worcester and it was another beautiful sunny and warm day with a lovely blue sky.  It will take us 2 to 3 hours to get to Worcester but a lovely day for a chug.

Leaving Upton on a sunny morning

Coming to the footbridge

We passed a couple of boats coming down the river but you never see many boats and there is not much to see as you are chugging along as the banks are high and mainly lots of trees, but the river is really calm and low so can’t ask for much more!

Coming to Diglis Lock

Nearly Up!

We chugged on and then we were going under the foot bridge at Worcester and going into Diglis lock.  There are two locks here, a big one and a smaller one, today we went into the smaller one.  We hooked onto the cables and up we went.  It didn’t take very long and soon we were going out the other side.  We stopped at the water point to get water and then chugged on to the visitor pontoon outside the locks which take you onto the Worcester & Birmingham Canal.  It looked full so we weren’t hopeful that we would get a space but there was one so in we went.

We tied up, had some lunch then went for a walk along the river and up to the shops, we had a walk through there then out onto the canal and into Diglis basin where we stopped at the café boat and had a coffee sitting in the sun as it was such a lovely day again.  We then walked back to the boat.

We are staying here on the pontoon for a couple of days, then heading up the two locks and into Diglis basin and onto the Worcester & Birmingham canal, we are looking forward to getting on the narrow canals again.

Moored at Worcester