We woke up this morning to the mist on the water at sunrise.
It gave us the urge to get going so we set off at 9.00am. We soon got to Hawksbury Junction with clear blue skies and got through Sutton stop lock with no problems.
We then turned and went up the Coventry canal passing the Ashby canal and some other unusual characters.
We got through Nuneaton dodging the odd telly chucked in the canal and then up to Hartshill. We passed Les on n.b Valarie (see link) and stopped for a quick chat before we headed on up to Atherstone.
We got to the locks to find two other boats in front of us and as these locks are slow fillers it was very slow going...
We got through them in just over two hours and decided to moor up at 5.00pm, just as the sun was setting.
We chilled in the cratch reading and recovering from the twelve locks and seventeen miles we had done today, a record for us.
We did have a bit of a chuckle because we got a call from ITV in the evening, asking us to vote on who we thought was best on the Election debate on Sky, so we voiced our opinion and they will be sending us a five pound voucher...The funny thing is we didn't even watch it... It just shows what a load of old tosh these voting polls are.....lol
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If you go into the swan at fradley junction please could you post if the food has got any better as last time it was the biggest load of s*** ever. But good location perhaps sell gongies only
Hi Anon
Can't comment on the food, as didn't stop, but pub was really busy though, and it was looking a tad commercialised this time of year...
Anonymous, we had a very good meal at The Swan a year ago - braised steak followed by bread-and-butter pudding. I wrote about it at the time here:
http://jhalfie.blogspot.com/2009/04/hot-under-deck-boards.html
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