Autumn is definitely here and it is damp and a bit cold and a real shock to the system. But the low bridge heights mean that we still have to take the wheelhouse down.
We gambled the weather and opted to travel without our rain cover. It was not a good choice! Our log book entries for the trip said it all. Seven locks with weather notation : drizzle; heavy rain; really rather wet and windy; serious wind – Lobelia pushed sideways onto bank and unable to get into lock.
During brief respites in rain the Tucker grandparents got off the boat and gamely exercised the boys along the towpath. We could hear them all chanting their times tables as they marched alongside us. Grandparents were rewarded for their resilience to the cold and times tables with scotch at the locks.
We moored at Cusey and things improved. The rain and wind had gone and we now had free electricity and water. Better still, (in the boys’ eyes) there was a pizza/kebab van in the car park. With euros in hand they ordered their own food and befriended a 7 year old french boy with whom they chatted and played until dark.
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