We had a short lie in today to recover from Alison's birthday and with slightly woolly heads we set off at About 9:00.
The bridges on the Oxford Canal are of a grand scale and easy to negotiate.
We got the iconic view of Braunston Church and correctly managed this Piccadilly Circus of canal junctions taking the left turn towards Rugby.
It was nice to be back on a narrow canal with no huge craft and no need to share locks. There were only three today, at Hillmorton.
No fender problems here though we were very curtly told that if we were using the left hand locks we should stick with them, this is apparently canal etiquette. Some people should remember they own their boat not the whole canal system.
In Foulridge, where I grew up, there was a picture of a famous cow on the pub wall which had fallen in the canal and swim through the mile tunnel.
We were pleased this beast wasn't trying to swim, he is HUGE. It did make us inclined to have a steak tonight though
We moored up at Newbold on Avon, where the children and I would regularly walk our dog when we lived locally. On our favourite walk we used to pass the portal of the original Newbold tunnel.
And walk over this former canal bridge.
All this industrial history on our doorstep and we never really appreciated it.
We will stay here for another day and explore our former stamping ground.
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