Yesterday (Wednesday ) we left the Ashby canal and rejoined the Coventry Canal again and traveled pass the district of Coventry,Bedworth before coming to our next overnight mooring spot of Hawkesbury Junction.
This Junction is also known as Sutton Stop after the name of the Toll clerk who use collect the payments before entering the canals.Its a busy junction, with the Oxford canal branching off, their is also a fascinating pub The Greyhound besides the junction, with lots of canal memorabilia, it is a very popular pub and serves good food and ales, which we had to sample.
We were going to take the boat to Coventry Basin and moor overnight, but because we wer moored in a nice spot, we decided we would catch a bus into the city centre, which we did. So up earlyish this morning and off we set to catch the bus, which took us to Coventry, and we did the tourist bit today. We went to visit the Cathedral, but unfortunately a service was being conducted so we only had a chance for a peep of the inside, but the remains of the bombed part of the church was available for us to see.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry
We also went to the transport http://www.transport-museum.com/ which is well worth the visit and as a bonus it was free, inside was an exhibition of the World War Two blitz where the German air raids destroyed most of this city as it was a major part of the manufacturing of war armaments.
We also saw Lady Godiva Statue, who rode through the streets of Coventry naked as an act of defiance.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Godiva
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