After breakfast we moved 2 miles up the canal to Priors Hardwick to get an internet link and moored up whilst I updated yesterday's blog and did last week's accounts as is traditional on Saturdays.
Boat moored in a canalside pond with no access to the waterway!
Bridge on a bend, as they often are
The work completed we set off again on our way south in dry but chilly and breezy weather. The scenary is becoming increasingly hilly and the Oxford, as an early contour canal, wound its way around one hill after another, on a couple of occasions almost doubling back on its course. Fast progress was also prevented by the canal being shallow and narrow with speeds of more than 2.5mph being impossible to sustain.
After lunch on the move we arrived at Fenny Compton where we stopped to fill up with water and then moored for the night a quarter mile further on.
6.85 miles, 0 locks, 3 hours 35 minutes cruising
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