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| Our guest-crew |
The day started with light rain - which got steadily heavier throughout the day. Just what you want when you have visitors aboard.Set off after a cooked breakfast - straight into the Crick Tunnel. At least the first part of the day was dry then.... Once out of the tunnel we passed the back of Watford Gap services so temporarily moored the boat while Kim & Bob climbed over the fence to return with lunch for all from McDonalds. Moving off the next obstacle is the Watford flight - a reasonably sized staircase. There were 1/2 dozen boats coming up and a couple in front going down so we had about 40 minutes to wait. Fortunately our place in the queue had us directly beneath the M1 overbridge, so we were nice and dry. However we proceeded to get drenched during the rest of the trip to Braunston - though it was a big help having Bob helping us through the locks. Moored up, changed and dry, Bob and I got a taxi back to Crick to collect the car, while Annie and Kim did tea and ladies hairdressing.We just got back before the heavens opened again so we decided not to venture out the short walk to the pub, but played scrabble until midnight.
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| Ceilidh at the bottom of Watford staircase |
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