Thursday 14 August 2008

August 9 - Laundry and a tunnel

The day started well and sunny. We turned Levi on to get wiggly amps for the washing machine. By the time we finished the wash load and got going for Blisworth Tunnel, the clouds were forming, but Pete put on wet gear to protect from the falling water inside the tunnel. Elizabeth went below and turned on lights and we travelled this most famous tunnel: http://www.blisworth.org.uk/images/Blistunnel.htm.

Last journey through, Pete thought this was the most stressful time he's ever had. Now that the journey was on the other side of doing heaps of locks and selling the house, he had much fun!! The internal lights through windows mean that a whole section of the tunnel is lit for our journey - not just the front from the headlamp. We finished up drenched from rain (we mean drenched!!) and moored up in Weedon, Northamptonshire. By the time we disembarked and walked, we discovered that it was just west of the A45/A5 trunk roads intersection. We had just travelled through there in Reg a few days earlier!