Thursday 25th September. Up betimes to carry out our cunning plan to boat not only in Northamptonshire and Leicestershire, but also Warwickshire, where the boundary lies a short way down the joint Oxford & GU Canal. It's a whim, but one easily achieved if we get up early turn at the Braunston Junction and wind at a winding hole a short way down the Oxford & GU.
Early means just 7am and I find the moorings misty wit the slow moving smoke from cosy boats stoking their stoves in the first chills of autumn.
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| Bridge 1 at Braunston |
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| The bridge over Braunston Marina |
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| Bridge 1, early morning mist |
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| The Grand Union Canal at the junction with the Oxford. Preparing to turn left (west) up the Oxford & GU |
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| Returning to Braunston Junction on the Oxford & GU. Preparing to turn right (east). |
Back at Braunston we moor up for a gargantuan spread - The Gongoozler's Big Breakfast - at The
Gongoozler's Rest Café, a smallish boat (14 seats) at the mouth of the marina.
This breakfast fuelled us for the whole day! Recommended!
And so, well filled, we head back through Braunston Tunnel, passing other boats coming the other way with three inches to spare, sharp left at Norton Junction, up the Leicester Arm, up Watford Locks, Crick Tunnel, Crick itself and moored up at 4pm at Yelvertoft again.
13 miles and 13 locks including the Warwickshire diversion this morning.
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