Last night we had a good meal at the Tap and Tandoor, a gastropub serving an interesting range of small brewery beers and excellent indian food. I was very impressed when the lady at the table next to ours picked a long green chilli from one or their dishesand put it straight in her mouth. She then started making strange noises and her face went red. She had thought it was a green bean. Sadly her family, us, and the waiter though it rather funny.
A busy day today . First job in the morning was to clean the top of the boat. It has not been cleaned for some time and was looking very dirty. That done, after talking to the crew of the boat next to us we decided to fill up with diesel at the nearby Peterborough Boat Centre rather than follow our original plan to go on to March past our marina to fill up there which would have added an extra 2 hours to the journey.
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| On the way to Dog in a Doublet Lock |
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| The Lock in sight |
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| Moored at Dog in a Doublet |
From there we set out for the Dog and Doublet Lock, named after the adjacent pub. This is the first (or last) lock on the Nene taking the river down to tidal waters. Leaving Peterborough the wide and nearly straight river took us across flat fen country for 4.5 miles which provided little shelter from the blustery wind. Not too exciting but it had to be done, "because it's there" and is not often visited by passing boaters.
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| Before |
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| After |
We arrived at the EA moorings near the lock at 14:20 having turned the boat around so we could wash the starboard side. Denise then had the opportunity to touch up the paintwork which had got scratched in the past few cruises.
Statistics: 6m, 0 locks, 2 hours 20 mins cruising.
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