We set out from Warwick on the Friday morning, having been met again by our Charleston friends, now travelling companions. We had thought we would set out west, taking us to Stratford on Avon. But in between that decision and this morning, we knew that our eldest would be visiting from New York early in September and that we had a friend, moored up on the eastern section of the Grand who needed a bit of a hand. So we set out and turned east. We went through the Cape locks then trundled through the countryside where our friends learned to identify the squeak of moorhens and enjoyed the aqueducts over both river and rail. We moored up at the Waterside, a pub just outside Leamington Spa, and enjoyed a pub lunch. We stopped in Leamington Spa to let our friends catch a train back to Warwick, and we carried on again to Radford Semele.
On the 31st, we made the 6 mile 12 lock journey back to Long Itchington, but this time, to moor outside the Blue Lias . Again, we took ourselves out for dinner and had a fab time.
