We were awake early to another glorious day even though we are on countdown to Winter now, we go through the first lock and no lock keeper is on duty so the first narrowboat went in , we followed and then came another, but we didn't all fit, so the last boat went diagonal across the lock, then we nearly got our front end stuck under the gate, lots of drama, but we all survived.
We topped up with more water once we left the lock, and the next few locks were drama free, the one route off the river Thames wich we were going to take was closed due to repairs, so we had to go through Oxford canal again, which isn't to bad but a little bit slower, we go pass the array of boats some down right scruffy that line the first part of the canal.
We stop at the village of Thrupp which is a little hamlet just outside of Oxford it has two pubs the Three Horseshoes now called the Jolly boatman and the Boat Inn formerly the Axe Inn, where an Inspector Morse television series was filmed.
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