Aug 9

We are in Warwick, having spent a couple of very laid back days. We stopped in Long Itchington, a delightful little village, with a sleepy, open feel to it. There was a very old house that Elizabeth I stayed in, across the duckpond at the center of the village. We had supper in “The Duck Pond” (guess where that was?) pub. We then made our way to Royal Leamington Spa, a quite large town with ‘famous’ spring-fed baths. These are now closed and converted to municipal buildings such as museum and library. Famous? There was a very large parish church (locked up tight), and we had ?difficult? mooring, so we moved along to just outside a posh pub, where we had a lovely (though expensive) meal. Called “The Moorings”. Yesterday we moved along to Warwick, where Pat and Kerry found a kindred spirit (a quilter) exhibiting her crafts in a large show in Birmingham. They went in to the show while I stayed and slept in the boat (I have a nasty allergic reaction/cold? at the moment, leaking everywhere). We are off to the Castle here in Warwick today, and there will be a number of pictures to follow.