Sorry it's been a while, we've been back on the wild stretches of the K&A where the phone signals are all but non existant.
We left you at the foot of the Caen hill.
Though we had the help of Celtic Dream and her happy crew, thanks guys !
It being a Sunday and glorious weather there was no shortage of gongoozlers to watch proceedings.
Just as we entered the last lock of the day our relief crew arrived, nice timing Mr B.We finished the run up to Devizes and went for a well deserved pub lunch. After a very pleasant afternoon Mr B left on his bike, hope you had a good ride home.
The next morning it was time to go in search of the mystical laundrette, well not so difficult to find this time as we'd walked past it on the way to the pub! Then resupply the ships stores.
Then it was time to be underway again. Where an old form of transport met new.
Then old met even older!
We rattled through locks and places we passed through on our way in, it all seems so different in the other direction. We had a closer look at the pill boxes,
Most have been left to nature but this one has been converted into a bat roost, if you look closely you can see their entrace holes in the smaller gun slot.
There are many stories to be told on the cut. Some may be true but they don't all have a happy ending !
We were getting close to the end of the K&A now it's been hard work all the way!
But the final lock eventually arrived and we were back on the Thames
yes I know it's not a good look, but long coat, shorts and crocs mean no wet trousers, socks or shoes. Though you do feel a bit of a pratt walking through Reading town centre.Oh what a pleasure to be back on the river. Plenty of room for everybody, no crashing through the undergrowth. Best of all when you get to a lock, a nice man opens the gates for you and does all the hard work.
We have just passed through Henley on Thames,
Found a lovely mooring and stopped for the day. Five minuets later the heavens opened. We have been very lucky so far on this trip. It has only rained for a whole day on us once and that was yesterday. Otherwise we've missed it like today.
