We left home at 7am, and drove up to Brinklow Marina, to attend the Electrika electric boat show. We listened to some of the talks and spoke to a lot of people, and I’ll be writing a piece for Canal Boat. It was good to hear from electric boat owners, and see some of the latest tech. We left about 2pm, made a stop at Tesco in Rugby, and headed for Briar Rose. We were soon unpacked and setting off, heading for Cosgrove.
Before the lock we passed a couple of boats going the other way, and then at the lock a boat was about to come up. As the lock landing is a bit awkward there, when the gates were open I went in to give them room to come out.
We’d realised that we probably hadn’t filled the water tank at the end of our Christmas trip, so we stopped on the water point below the lock and filled up. It’s just as well we did, because it appeared the tank was quite low. We moored a few hundred yards further along towards the aqueduct. I still needed a few thousand steps so we went for a walk round the Ouse Valley Park, and were delighted to find the ice cream man by the aqueduct. We had to walk through a field of cattle, then headed back towards the aqueduct.
It’s got really quite warm this afternoon, and we’ve been wishing we’d brought some shorts with us.
1 mile, 1 lock.
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