I spent some
time on Wednesday morning trying to get my head round all the winter
closures. They have finally been agreed
and show which locks are closed (and when and how long) over the winter period
for maintenance. I had had a go a couple
of days ago and gave up so I got in touch with Aileen from Quaintrelle and she
was having trouble comprehending it too – I think she’s got to the point where
she is going to give up and she and Mike will put the boat in a marina and go
skiing for three months. It certainly
seems more difficult to understand it this year and I’m still not clear how we
will firm up on our routes over winter but this is as far as I got this
morning.
The plan was
to get to Loughborough as Catherine was stopping over for the night. Here we are setting off from our overnight
mooring in glorious weather again.
Most of the
journey was on the river which has many weekend cottages alongside.
These
emergency moorings didn’t look particularly strong.
As we have
said before we are not really keen on rivers but have taken to the River Soar.
We went up
Bishop’s Meadow and Loughborough locks.
We were joined by a couple who had just picked up their brand new
narrowboat and have moved on board.
Quite an amazing step as they had never been on a narrowboat before, and
they also designed it themselves. They
were really pleased to get advice on locking etc.
We soon came into Loughborough town centre - straight on is to the basin and to the left the navigation continues on to Leicester and beyond.
Here is the
basin – we have seen worse and we have seen better.
Here we are
turning left to find some moorings for the night.
We moored in
time to watch the first rugby match and for Karen to bake a coffee and walnut
cake. Catherine came round after work for dinner and a sleepover.
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