Uxbridge to Paddington Basin, Paddington Arm, Grand Union Canal
Time to update you with our adventures!
We left Uxbridge in perfect September sunshine, a warm and windless day. Tescos and coconuts along the way!
A huge new Tesco is being built in Yiewsley which will have waterside moorings, as our picture shows, residents on the other side of the canal will soon have a very different outlook. We had the canal virtually to ourselves and soon reached Bulls Bridge Junction, where there is a another 24 hour Tesco. The moorings for shoppers are beside a dry dock feature the supermarket has recreated. Alas, it is a dump for litter and supermarket trolleys, and as a consequence, is a very insightly feature, as you can see.
Shopping over, we then turned down the Paddington Arm, and moved through Southall, Northolt, Alperton, and suburbia galore, crossed high above the North Circular Road, and on towards Little Venice. Coconuts all the way. Every so often we saw coconuts go bobbing past - never seen so many in a day! Many differing cooking smells accompanied us along the route. We branched off to the right down the Paddington Arm of the former Grand Junction canal. We had been lead to believe that some safe moorings were there and sure enough right at the far end of the arm, overshadowed by new office towers on one side, and St Mary's Hospital on the other, were some new floating pontoons. We could stay here for 7 days FOC if we wished. This was a most pleasant, and quiet spot given that it was just off the Edgware Road, and minutes from Paddington underground.
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