(photo - Michelle Knight)
"There was a three-hour delay below the top lock before we could make our way
down through the staircase, so we sat on the grass and soaked up the rays."
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"Travelling on down to Norton Junction and turning left, we were unable
to find a mooring for the night, so we descended the top lock..."
"...and moored up about 100 metres further on."
"...we emerged into the bright sunlight at the far end, and stopped at Stoke Bruerne."
"After some lunch, sightseeing and delicious ice-creams,
we descended the seven-lock Stoke Bruerne flight"
"Our overnight mooring was at Bridge 58."
Misty morning (photos - Michelle Knight)
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"Wednesday, and half-way through our week with Michelle,
we continued a further couple of miles"
"...we winded, and navigated back to Stoke Bruerne for more ice-creams."
"OK, I'm a bollard!"
Mooring for the night at Stoke Bruerne
"A man from the CRT walked past us with equipment on his back that made him look
as if he were about to embark on a space-walk. In fact, his large backpack
with the tall extension was a Google camera." (photos - google.com)
Blisworth Tunnel (photo - Michelle Knight)
"Normally camera-shy, Michelle allowed me to take one photo of her."
(photo - Michelle Knight)
(photo - Michelle Knight)
"At the top lock, Pip pointed out to Michelle the former lock-keeper's cottage.
She told her that it had featured in the book Lock, Stock and Barrel,
written by Shirley Ginger, who had transformed part of it into a shop,
and lived there, thirty years previously."
" Pip and Roger, ahead of us, took the last remaining mooring immediately
after the turn, and then invited us to breast up to Windsong."
Norton Junction (photo - Michelle)
"Saturday morning, Windsong left before we'd even got up,
but I saw them leaving Watford Top Lock as we arrived at the bottom later."
"Yelvertoft, arriving there in the sunny, hot weather
we'd been fortunate to have had for the whole week." (photo - Michelle)
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