It’s time to leave Warwick… Day 271

Thursday 18th April Day 271

It’s time to leave Warwick now and we will miss this area. It’s beautiful and well worth spending time here either on your boat or staying over somewhere. The walk up to the Warwick castle along the river yesterday was stunning.

It’s a busy old day today as we cruise from Bridge 46 near Tesco which means doing a set of five locks before mooring up. We head into the first one with a couple and have a good old natter. Turns out they have cruised pretty much everywhere and they give us some great advice on doing the Thames stretch. It’s really has put our mind at rest about what we are planning to do.

Basically, we have booked those mooring at Paddington Basin and then the London canal museum. We plan to chat to any other boaters and if they are doing the Thames we will tag along with them if the weather looks good. We do not want to attempt the Thames in windy or wet weather. If not, we explore some more areas around London and crank it as soon as the weather looks good.

We moor up for lunch after the fifth lock of the day and so do the couple on the other boat. Then we all crank it to the next set of locks at Bascote which involve the staircase locks. I think I do a pretty poor job of describing how they work on the vlog ((Really? Like anyone is surprised!)) anyway, with great team work between all the boaters we quickly get through the last 5 of the day and we cruise a little longer and moor up near the Two Boats pub – we last came here on a hire boat a good few years ago dreaming of owning our own boat and here we are lots. Lots of memories to enjoy and we treat ourselves to a little drink in the pub to celebrate. Day done. Until tomorrow. x

Cruising: 7 miles/ 10 locks
London bound totals:79/198   Locks: 86/174  tunnels : 4 (not sure how many to London!)
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