A lovely Time with Friends.

We woke to a very frosty morning and a lovely mist coming of the canal.

As we were going to be doing the 19 locks of the lapworth flight we left at 8.45 and arrived at Kingswood Junction at 9.10 In to the first lock and we saw a lock volunteer setting the next lock for us a lovely lady called Judith.

Then to our surprise another volunteer arrived this one called Chris and 2 locks further up a 3rd volunteer appeared he was called Neil and he came with his dog Benji so at this point we lost Judith who went back down the flight to help another boat.


We went through the locks at a fantastic pace and at lock 6 we lost both Chris and Neil.

We had been in touch with some very dear friends Roger and Annie who where in the area visiting friends they were planning to meet us at Hockley Heath but a phone call from them said they were walking done the tow-path to meet us, we meet them at the very last lock and welcomed them aboard.
We set off towards the Wharf Inn and had a very enjoyable lunch Thank you both.

It was really lovely to welcome aboard our first  friends since the start of are adventure and to catch up on things.










They are in there camper van heading to chesterfield for a couple of nights to watch Colchester FC play football as there son Richard is assistant Manager for them.

Time travelled today 4.30 Hours
Distance 5 Miles

 Total Distance Travelled is  51.5 Miles 
 56 Locks (Broad) 19 single and 3 Tunnel's, Total Tunnel length 55532  yards   
Total Time 34 hours

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