Thursday 27th December 2007
Location: Cropredy, Oxfordshire, Oxford Canal
Today: 10 miles, 8 locks. Total distance: 978 miles. Total locks: 638
Cold windy day. Reasonable t-mobile gprs reception here.
Pulled the pins at 08:00 and headed off to Cropredy. A bit on the windy side today but still a very nice day for the time of year.
Passed nb Gosty Hill and Alison and Iain – photo below.
Also passed nb Alnwick and met up with Graham & Jane, it nice to meet them face to face at long last.
I sold my laptop on ebay (story here) and the guy who bought it off me met up with us near a road bridge to collect it. I am glad to see the back of it, not because I think it will be a problem anymore, just because I want nothing more to do with Sony.
We are moored up about 100 yards away from where we moored the last time we were in Cropredy back at the beginning of September. I had a look back at some of the photos I took during the last visit – what a difference 3 months makes to the countryside.
Friday 28th
We went out for a meal at The Red Lion last night. A bit of a disappointment as we had heard good things about their food. That’s three pub meals in the last ten days that have been disappointing – perhaps it is us?? To be fair to The Red Lion, they did have a sign up to say that they were short of staff due to sickness. Time to give the pubs a rest again and to go back to the Indian restaurants as we had much better success with them.
Saturday 29th
We had a surprise visit from Lindsay, Simon, Tom and Amy. They arrived just after lunch yesterday and left just after lunch today. It was very nice to have them all visit. Tom and Amy are shooting up. Some photos for the family here.
Current mooring
Countryside around Wormleighton
Nice farm house
Bridge beside farm house needs some work doing!!
Not much clearance !!
Fenny Compton
Fenny Compton Tunnel - tunnel long since gone
Fenny Tunnel looking north
Alison & Iain off Gost Hill
Wooden boat also needs some repair work - starting with a pump out!!
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