There have to be days like the past couple of days. All good, nothing dramatic or nasty- just plain, ordinary fun on the British waterways.
We’ve travelled upstream on the Soar River navigation, reaching Leicester. We moored there, and spent a bunch of time exploring the inner city. Leicester is nuts about the Richard III issues (bones found in parking lot (British: car park)), and going to be reburied in the Cathedral. Seems a lot like the old ‘relics that are venerated’ schemes of the medieval period, to raise funds. They DID win the court case with York, who wanted the remains (and tourist funds). However, not my thing, and we did NOT pay the 8 quid each to see the museum and reliquary…
We’ve enjoyed great weather. Stayed last night in Blaby, and visited a very old pub there (the Baker’s Inn- guess what it used to be?). Today, on to the middle of somewhere, but not really a named place (they are rare in Britain!). Clear starry skies with little light pollution, so LOTS of stars. I put up the gates on the canal side to prevent wrong turns and sudden splashing sounds from those who forget which is the towpath side! The locks here are all wide ones and lots of effort, so we are going at them a little slower than we did at Tardebigge and other flights of narrow locks. These are also much more spread out, so walking between them is more of a major hike.
All good. We are looking for tunnels, and a return to Market Harborough tomorrow: where my canal experiences in Britain started with out first hire boat holiday in 2007.
