Saturday 10th August - Tewkesbury to Pershore

Annie spent the morning phoning family.  It is by no means clear if we are going to her Gran's funeral on Wednesday in Gosport (family stuff!) so we need to hang loose until we know.

Set off mid morning and stopped almost immediately at Tewkesbury marina to fill up with diesel.  We are burning almost exactly 1 litre/hour.

We spent the best part of the day slowly moving around Bredon Hill with its iron age hillfort on top.  At Strensham Lock we locked through with Nb 'Marlin' and stayed with them the rest of the afternoon - its much easier two boats locking together.  We finally both moored up at the town moorings in Pershore.  Marlin's skipper walked over to us a short time later and asked if we would care to join them in the ritual they go through each evening of 'G&Ts'.  Of course we had to share in the ritual.  They are Martin and Ros and showed us Marlin - 50ft long because that is the width of the bottom of their garden against the Erewash canal.  They had incorporated some great ideas into her design and it felt longer than Ceilidh!

After tea Annie and I went a walk around Pershore, which was humming with activity.  Nice place.

Looking back to Tewkesbury. Some of the old bridges are fun to navigate beneath!

Topping up

Eckington bridge with Bredon Hill  behind