A day of two halves

March - on the old River Nene

We had planned to get the laundry done this morning having been out for 3 weeks.    There was a laundrette in March only 10 minutes walk from the boat with a service wash so we deposited our clothes there at 8:30am and returned 3 hours later and picked up the bags with everything clean and dry.  What hadnt been planned was my visit to the dentist.  I have had an increasingly wobbly wisdom tooth for a few weeks and now was the time to do something about it.  A shop selling excellent ice cream had told us where to find a dentist so I walked there and fortunately was able to get an emergency appointment for 3 hours later at lunch time.  The dentist said she strongly recommended it to be removed which she then did.  Problem solved though at private patient rates - one of the problems of nomadic life.

Boat passing wind turbine

Everything complete we left March at 1pm and travelled onwards through the fenland landscape in windy weather.  We passed right by a large windfarm (26 turbines I think) - the picture shows the size of one of these structures compared with a passing boat.  At 4pm we moored up at the village of Upwell which together with its adjacent village of Outwell  stretches for over a mile along Well Creek as two rows of houses, shops etc on each side of the waterway.