We're back on the Oxford Canal now, having made our way around Hawkesbury Junction from teh Coventry Canal. As we prepared to go through the lock (of just under a foot in depth!), we bumped into Barry (Country Dreams) who, with others, was waiting for a canal boat hearse in preparation for a funeral. It was moving to see the working boat decked out and ready to receive its important cargo.
It was an intermittently bright and drizzly day taking us back on to the Oxford, but on a section we had not yet known. By evening, though, we were moored up back in Newbold, just east of the tunnel where we have been twice before for some long weekends and really, just the west side of Rugby. Now we can say - we have done the Warwickshire Ring! Six different canals, 120 locks, five tunnels and 100 miles later, we can say we loved it! It included Warwick, Birmingham, and much countryside. It was fun to enjoy our year anniversary in the midst of such a journey.
Yesterday was a moored up day so that Elizabeth could go to London for a few meetings. She thought it was fun to get the taxi to Rugby station, but to get it from Bella out on the cut, not in the marina :-).
This is being written as we travel east and we'll be moored up in Blue Haven tonight.
