Thursday 5 July 2012
Up Foxton locks and down the Welford Arm

A lovely summers day today and we visited the Foxton shop in the Skittle Alley of the Black Horse pub (honest), for a paper and then back to the boat and we were the first boat of the day to check in with the volunteer lockkeeper. He very kindly helped us up the staircases and we were at the top in 45 minutes and not another boat in sight.

After coffee, we went on towards the junction and turned left to go down to Welford. A place we had been to 3 years ago, that is even a more dreary, untidy and depressing end of canal place, with narrow, and overhanging trees as you approach, than we remembered. .Some boats here look fixed to the spot with dank, green algae clinging to them, little daylight reaching the boats, and so giving very miserable onboard existences for the liveaboard boaters. About 20 years ago this was probably an attractive location with new information boards and tended grounds, but not now. Why did we come down here?.