Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Down the Grand Union - no locks today!

On the GU between Buckby and Weedon
A very pleasant cruise today in breezy sunshine starting at 10:00.  Going south on the GU from Buckby takes one through some very attractive woodland, its wonderful peace and tranquility only interrupted by the M1 50 yards to the east and the West Coast Main Line 100 yards to the west.  Here a narrow gap in the hills has been used for over 2000 years since the Romans built Watling Street, now the A5, also nearby.  We stopped at Weedon to post some letters and then moved on to moor out in the countryside (except for the Pendolinos on the West Coast Main Line) not far from Gayton Junction at 2pm after a journey of 8.5 miles.

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