Rain has been promised, but as we set off its dry, but very grey skies, we leave our mooring by the pumping station and the main rail line on our left is our companion for a while but again open countryside on our right hand side. fourteen locks we must negotiate today but not all together.
At our first lock unfortunately has a dead swan in it, so I pull it out of the water and put in the bushes by the side of the lock, after watching Bear Gryls on the television I did think of skin it and having it for Sunday lunch.
The villages of Great and Little Bedwyn are passed by still the Wilts railway line keeps us companion with its frequeny roar of high speed train flying pass. If you wold stop at Great Bedwyn you could pay the Stone Museum a visit, which include in its collection work from seven generations of stonemasons.
There are statues, tombstones, amusing plaques and a fossilised footprint of a dinosaur.
Froxfield is the next village to cruise by with is main feature The Somerset Hostpital founded by the Duchess of Somerset in 1694.
Then it's open country side and at Picketsfeild bridge the railway cross the canal and isn't seen again for a while, at Hungerford Marsh lock, right in the middle of the lock is a swing bridge, so not only have we got to operate the lock we must also swing the bridge out of the way so we can pass.
Then it a few more locks before we reach Hungerford , we thought that we would struggle to get a mooring but to our surprise it was quite empty. So we moor up have a bit of lunch and then off to the local Tescos to stock up before dinner and television.
On the note of the TV we been having problems tuning in the television and found out the aerial connection is broke so we had to resort to our old aerial which worked fine.
No movement tomorrow as rain is promised.
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