Friday was an early start – 7am doing our first lock in the dark. Then on up the Oxford canal, down the “Napton 9” and turning onto the Grand Union at Wigrams Turn. Then down the 3 locks at Calcutt and a mooring just before the “Barge” near Blue Lias marina, where we used to moor Solong our first boat.
As some of you may know Paul and I have been cutting down on the alcohol as we got rather carried away last summer, regularly consuming a bottle of wine an evening. However the long day’s cruising combined with a pubside mooring prooved too strong a compulsion and we popped in for a beer after supper. Still we were quite restrrained, just a couple of pints.