We leave our mooring this greyish morning and turn straight on to a new canal, the Stratford on Avon canal, twenty five and a half mile long stretching from Kings Norton Junction to Stratford on Avon with fifty four locks, we join it half way at lock twenty two.
We are straight away into locks and tackle eight of the today, the canal is a pretty canal and not very busy which is a blessing and a curse as all the locks need emptying before we can use them. A few oddity of this canal are the bridges with a gap in the middle so that in the old days the horse drawn boats didn't have to undo the horse to bypass the bridge as the rope was allowed to go through the slot in the bridge making the passage a lot quicker, also the lock houses have a barrel roof which is odd.
We then moored up by the Fleur de lys pub which were originally 13C century cottages incorporating a bakehouse where the famous Fleur de lys pies were once cooked here but unfortunately is now mass cooked in a factory. But they still have a good pie menu which we sampled and was very nice indeed mmmmmm. http://www.fleurdelys-lowsonford.com/
Speak to you tomorrow
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