Usually when I am out boating I try to publish a blog each day, however, when cruising the Ashby Canal getting an internet connection is definitely a hit and miss affair.
This blog will cover the last few days, for a start, which town/city qualifies for the worst canal frontage in the country?
Having recently travelled through Nuneaton, I think there will be very few challengers. They have made nothing of their canal frontage and the amount of rubbish in the canal makes the local tip look underused!
As for the Ashby, it is still very shallow, still very busy and still has a lot of "continuous cruisers"!! But the countryside is still great.
On Saturday we were joined at Sutton Cheney by two day trip boats full of friends and acquaintances. (Is that spelt right - I don't think so? Where is spellcheck when I want it) there were 36 trippers in total hence the need for our boat as well, ages ranged from 2 years to 84 years. The two day boats went first followed by GUELROSE. We were the lucky ones, we picked up all the comments about b****y day boats!! Nevertheless, we cruised up to the winding hole just past Market Bosworth, had a BBQ lunch and then cruised back to Stoke Golding, (Whoops - probably just disclosed the location of the day boats).
Sunday was quieter, just the 5 of us, Mum, the wife and of course the two dogs, Alfie and Lewis. Progress was slow, the canal was shallow, there were so many moored boats etc...... Our favourite mooring near Burton Hastings was already double booked, so we had to go on as far as Bulkington Bridge to moor, passing a miserable so and so on the way who complained I was well over on his side as I came through a narrows of an old bridge hole, my wife's comments to him are unprintable and people like him should not be on the canal full stop!!
On Monday we came off of the Ashby, down to Hawkesbury and onto the North Oxford. We found a nice mooring at Newbold on Avaon and can thoroughlty recommend the chippe in the village/suburb/town.
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