Weston Favell Lock to Wellingborough, River Nene
What a different day - blue sky, warm sun, ALL day, just like summer.
We pressed buttons and wound paddle gear and managed to negotiate the forbidding guillotine locks. Only a couple of boats passed us in each direction, as we progressed along the crystal clear waters of the Nene, with spectacular countryside all around. Mooring places are few and far between on this route, and somehow we passed Billing Aquadrome without spotting the entrance, so we shall have to visiit on the way back.
Our picture shows some ponies at our first a lock, one of whom who became very interested in our flower box but he couldn't quite reach it!
We are moored this evening in the sunshine, in Wellingborough, beside a park, with masses of swans all overfed with naughty white bread from the 24 hour Tesco across the road. Unfortunately we have picked a spot adjacent to a flour mill which will probably be processing all night.
10 guillotine locks and 8.3 miles
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