Back The Way We Came

We left Banbury on Wednesday morning. It was raining when we first woke but by 10.30 the rain had eased to a very fine drizzle. We headed to Cropredy for the evening as we have Shirley and Kevin NB Jenny Wren coming round for a meal.

They have a mooring in Cropredy Marina and are working in Banbury over Christmas. We had a lovely evening meal which sharon had prepared in the Wonderbag, it’s a great bit of kit and saves on our gas !!. The evening passed far too quickly and we said our goodbyes to Kevin and Shirley.

Shirley & Kevin

Thursday we left Cropredy and headed towards Fenny Compton. We had 8 locks to do and although we were behind another boat the locks fill and empty really fast so we still made good progress. The skies looked very dark and heavy and the weather forecast had said heavy rain in the afternoon so we thought we would be getting wet, however we moored at Fenny Compton just as the rain started so we remained nice and dry but it really hammered down for a couple of hours.

The skies Darken

Friday we headed off the wind was fairly strong and again the forecast was for rain but we had a dry cruise up to where we are moored at present. Whilst mooring the rain poured down for a while but it has now stopped . The forecast for Saturday morning is heavy rain but brighter after lunch. 

Time Travelled Wednesday 3 Hrs Distance 4 Miles 3 Locks

Time travelled Thursday  4 Hrs Distance 6 Miles 8 Locks

Time Travelled Friday 2.5 Hours 5 Miles

Total Distance Travelled 959. Miles 

207 Locks (Broad ) 443 single locks and 18 tunnel's, 10 Massive Lock

Total Tunnel length 10957 yards   
Total Time 511 hours  

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