We really didn't think we'd make it today, having had so much rain and stopping earlier than we wanted to each day. But we really wanted to make it as we had plans for having dinner with our Rugby friends. This is where we were: http://www.historic-uk.com/DestinationsUK/Braunston.htm
We made it because there was so much help for locks! We did the 7 Buckby/Wilton locks with Ellie, her sisters, her mother, Martin and her grandfather - all of whom were returning a borrowed holiday boat to Braunston. Boats were ready for each lock going down as we were going up, so sometimes even Elizabeth was frustrated not to be able to wind locks! We travelled through intermittent rain to Braunston locks after the Braunston tunnel (where we met a landslide on the exit!!). We had help through this flight of 6 locks from two families and friends on their way back to Rose Narrowboats, past Hillmorton on the north Oxford canal. They were clear novices, but very happy and willing. We were all donning or shedding foulies (wet gear) as the rains came and went.
We moored up just next to the Marina on the canal side and so enjoyed being on the cut when so often we walked this on the towpath. Dinner was at The Plough (c1672) with the most traditional pub menu we have seen for years! We can't recall the last time we saw prawn cocktail and gammon with pineapple on a menu...
