Here is the map of the day
We have finished the day on the Stratford canal heading towards Kings Norton junction where we will join the Worcester and Birmingham Canal.
Today has been another very busy lock day so Wendy has decided we are going out to dinner tonight. We have found a nice looking restaurant called Mortons Kitchen.
Here are some pictures of the day
Here is todays map
We travelled from Leamington Spa, through warwick and then up the Hatton lock flight. The weather today was pretty poor with heavy rain tin the morning as we started the flight. By tea time when we completed it it had a least stopped raining. at 5:30, Wendy was asking if we could stop for lunch, not realising we had missed that hours ago!
Needless to say, Wendy is very tired this evening!
We were lucky enough to meet another boat with a young couple on to do most of the flight with. You tend to get a mini life story as you chat, turns out this guy was a nuclear engineer!
Here is a mooring spot for tonight
Tomorrow, the weather promises to be better, lets hope so.
Here is the map of day 5
A winding trip on the Grand Union, locks about every 15 minutes so no peace for Wendy! – Little did she know this was just a warm up.
This is a new canal to us so around every turn there is something new to see. At the end of the day we stopped in Leamington Spa, the weather was still good so we did some washing 🙂
A launderette with a view!
Here is the Map of the day
Today we have gone from Napton and are about 30 minutes away from Leamington Spa. In doing so we have moved off the Oxford canal to the Grand Union. This section of the Grand Union was made a wide beam canal in the 1930’s so all the single locks were replaced with double locks so twice and much cargo could be moved. For us pleasure boaters this means very heavy gated locks. Luckily we met with another boat and came through together, this save water and means you have double the manpower!
Here are some photos from the day
Here is our map of Day 3, 10 locks today
Today started the same as most Sundays. Watching the St John’s live stream
After that is was just an amble through some beautiful country side.
At the bottom of Napton we have stopped for the night, tomorrow we head for Warwick.
We haven’t had much chance this year to give the boat a good clean and polish so we thought today would be a good day.
I was taking the pictures in between rinsing and drying 😊
We have stayed in the same place as overnight as it’s one of our favourite spots on our ‘home’ Canal.
So after a delayed start due to Coronavirus we have started our 2020 boating holiday.
We have cruised our now very familiar part of the Oxford canal from Cropredy heading towards Napton.
Here are a couple of photos from today
Here is the map of the day
