We left our isolated mooring early, and make good progress towards Bristol as we are on the river Avon and can speed a little bit faster than we can on the canals. We are the only boat on the river not one boat passed us last night nor this morning, we operate and go through Keynsham lock and then at Hanham lock we are stopped by the lock keeper who asked us to ring Nentham lock to see if we can proceed, I spoke to the lock keeper who asked us to stay where we were as its Spring tide, but to ring him again in a half an hour. We duly ring him and are told to proceed, which we do as I travel towards the lock the engine can feel the pull of the tide.
It's about an hour before we reach Netham lock where we go through the lock and moor as we need to see the lock keeper and pay for a Liscence as this part of the river is owned by Bristol Authority and not Canal and river trust. the lock keeper, John is very helpful and informative and tell us where the best mooring spots are in Bristol Floating Harbour.
We proceed down the feeder canal before entering the Floating harbour proper,and what a harbour with loads of different types and classes of boats and al hive of activity.
After a few attempts deciding where to moor we eventually come to the desicion to moor where a lot of bars and restaurants are situated, the reason being is that the mooring space is on a floating pontoon behind a code access gate,and as we are going home for the night then this seemed the safer option.
So we moor get changed before locking up the boat and then walking to the train station, we arrive buy our ticket rush to the platform as our train to Cardiff, Wales was due, got there to find that the train had been cancelled.......
Bloody typical so we wait for another forty minutes for the next train which arrives but not enough seats for two train loads of people, luckily we managed to get a couple of seats.
We got back to Cardiff picked up our prescription before going home, everything was fine at home a few bills to pay which we did before having a lovely bath. The boat has a shower which we use every night, but both of us loves our bath and bliss it was......ahhhhhh
Then Something to eat before settling down for a night of big television, then bed.
Saturday
Up again early pretty early a nice bacon sarnie consumed before we locked up our home and caught the bus into the city centre, into the station and no delays today straight onto the train and back to England, then in no time we are back on the boat. the boat was as we left it so we drop of a few things and go for a walk around this vibrant harbour, we stop and have a few shandies, befor going back to the boat and sitting out watching the world go by.
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