Atherstone

 As today's rain was postponed until tomorrow we decided on another long day in case we did not want to move on Tuesday.

At Tamworth the Coventry Canal crosses the River Thame 

Our journey took us through Tamworth where there are 2  notoriously slow locks.  Fortunately when we arrived we were first in the queue to go up - we are now ascending after having descended all the locks since Gailey on Thursday last week.   By the time we left the first lock 5 boats had turned up at the bottom waiting to follow us.

Then out of Tamworth into pleasant but unremarkable agricultural and wooded countryside via Polesworth to Atherstone.  Here there are 11 locks and we had debated whether to moor at the bottom or possibly go all the way up.  However we compromised and have now moored halfway up at official moorings near the town.

10 miles, 8 locks,5 hours 45 minutes