Wednesday 29 August 2012

Congerstone to Stoke Golding via Snarestone

Well, what a day. After the lovely weather yesterday, it rained. And rained. And rained.

We'd planned to go to Shackerstone and get the Heritage Steam Train down to the "Battle of Bosworth Country Park". Unfortunately, there is a boat festival at Shackerstone this weekend, and every available mooring spot on the canal was stacked with "Historic Boats", sometimes 3 deep across the cut.

Manoeuvring through the boats in the wind and the rain was a challenge, but we managed without hitting anything (though in the process, we did lose an umbrella).

Eventually we reached the current end of the Ashby Canal at Snarestone:



Thankfully there was a pause in the rain while we looked around.

After turning the boat around (always an interesting exercise), we headed south again. Predictably, the rain started again, and we had a repeat of manoeuvring through all the boats at Shackerstone.

But eventually, we've arrived near Stoke Golding. The sun is now shining, and it looks to be a good evening.

That's the end of this voyage for us - it's been an interesting and enjoyable trip.

16.5 miles and one tunnel (twice) today.


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