As predicted last night we did visit the local pub the Blue Lias, and must say its a very nice pub, and the flower display in the garden was beautiful even though the flower were now dying back, they also do food and have a caravan park attached to the pub, well worth a visit if you were ever up this way.
So another grey morning but no rain today we leave our mooring and then stop to take on water, after topping up we have a two locks to operate by the village of Cuttle with its two pubs either side of the canal, open arable land backed by hills now greet us, as we went through these locks we teamed up with another boat, who we stayed with till we left them in Leamington Spa.
At Boscote locks we encounter a staircase lock, and then under Welsh Road Bridge,onwards to Leamington, the canal courses through a wooded cutting before emerging to join the main road int to the town for a short while and then into another steep cutting hiding the road so that one would never know its there. Morrisons supermarket and other shops a reachable from bridge 40 if needed, but we have already topped up with provision so its not needed.
We travel through Lemington and our impressions from the canal isn't a very good one,as we spot a few people with cans in hands at 11.00 clock so we decide not to moor up and carry on towards Warwick.
The boat we have been sharing locks with moored up on the other side of Leamington and we carry on without them,then we have another two locks to get through, where the top lock has a pub called "the cape of good hope" and looks like a decent canal side pub. We then turn off on to the Salford Canal, a small arm that heads towards Warwick and here we find a lovely mooring, where the first night is free and then a charge for the next night, as this canal is looked after by a trust.
http://www.saltisfordcanal.co.uk/Saltisford_Canal/Saltisford_Canal_Trust.html
So that's our trip for today,tomorrow we are going stay put and visit Warwick castle so speak to you tomorrow.
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