Well here we are again. We arrived back in UK from Tenerife and took the boat straight to Peterborough with a view to getting her out of the water for bottom blacking. Unfortunately it didn't happen and we are going to try again in the autumn. However we had a busy week shopping, sorting bills, insurance, boat licence etc and finally set off for our summer adventure this morning.
It was an early start for us and we were filling up with diesel and water at 8am and were on our way by 0930hrs. It was very windy but at least it was dry and we decided that as the first part of our journey was such familiar territory, we would keep going until we had had enough.
We had a small narrowboat and a cruiser to keep us company for most of the journey and we helped each other out at various locks that were proving to be tricky due to the wind. Unfortunately we couldn't all get in the locks together, so we caught up at different parts of the river. We must be seasoned travellers by now, as three years ago when we got the boat, we would never have ventured out in such gales!
We stopped at Yarwell briefly for a quick lunch, waved to our mooring at Nassington and made our way to Fotheringhay, arriving at 1630hrs. We are moored this side of the bridge and hope that the wind has died down in the morning when we will endeavour to get through it.
Within 10 minutes of mooring it poured with rain but luckily we were tucked up in the warm by then. If the weather improves a bit we might venture out to the Falcon tonight for a drink.
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