Monday 21st July

It was bright and sunny this morning but still very blustery. We said goodbye to Linda and Ebony, with whom we had spent the last 4 days and set off on our way. This was the first time we had set off without a definite plan of where we were going to moor for the night.

Ebony says Goodbye or is it Au revoir?

(as we still have some doggy biscuits left)

We left the River Cam after about an hour and turned onto The Old West River. This was quite narrow in parts initially and was also quite busy with other boats. Sometimes it was so windy, it took all our strength to keep the boat going in a straight line.

The view from our mooring

The river widened but was then quite shallow in parts so altogether an interesting journey. We kept going until about 2pm until we found a nice mooring just outside Aldreth, two miles outside Earith.

Christine sitting out comfortably

The wind dropped sufficiently for us to sit out comfortably for an hour and then we went for a walk to find the village. It was about a mile away and was quite small with no shop or pub. A lot of the villages that we have visited have a lot of new houses being built and this was no exception. Unfortunately sometimes it detracts from the appeal of the village as a whole.

Butterflies seen on our walk to Aldreth