We decided it was just too lovely to stay moored in one place today, and besides, the cassettes were full and we had to go to an Elsan point. Hmm, Braunston or Hillmorton? Locks decided it. We had breakfast as usual, did a little work at the computer, then pulled over to the opposite side of the marina for a new can of Calor gas. Today, Elizabeth was helmsperson out of
the marina, not Pete. He gave her a gold star for stunning work and she had to agree! A sweet move into the cut.After a short while travelling north, we made our way through the Hillmorton Locks which we so enjoy. We stopped in between the bottom lock and the middle one to empty the cassettes. We usally do this by car from Blue Haven, but fun to take them by boat :-).
We continued north west in the sunshine past things we are used to seeing, but a few were captured this time. One, the mural of transport in Rugby and the other, wooden totems of wheat outside the Harvester pub on the canal. We moored up just east of the Aqueduct so that Elizabeth could do what she has wanted to do ever since she knew she could - shop at TKMaxx from the canal!! One shot is Bella moored up with fields to the left and Rugby to the right. The shot of what looks like a bridge is the aqueduct seen from the cycle path below. And it was fun to shop there from the canal! Sadly, no purchases, but hey.
By 3:30, we'd tied up in Newbold, a now familiar haunt. Pete went to the shops while Elizabeth worked a little more on the computer now on FAT band!!
