On the move again!!

Map Reference SP 61381 74260

Distance Travelled 15.4 Miles

Total:- 46 Locks 4 Tunnels

At last after a week in the marina waiting for the repair to the alternator we are back on the move again, and now heading south. As it was a five mile trip each way to Market Harborough for supplies whilst we were stuck in the marina, I have become intimately related with the route from the marina to Harborough and am glad we are now away from it and into a different county. It is not that different however since we are about half a mile from Yelvertoft Marina where we originally set out from but hopefully tomorrow we start to break new ground passing through Crick tunnel and on towards Watford Locks (near to Watford Gap Services on the M1 motorway) and down to Norton Junction where we turn to head towards Braunstone and the Oxford Canal.

The only point of interest today was our second passage through Husbands Bosworth tunnel, which at 1171 yards is a long dark hole! It is odd that passing through Saddington Tunnel we were pretty much alone but on both passages through Husbands Bosworth tunnel we have passed oncoming traffic in the middle, quite an interesting experience, especially when the second boater did not put his tunnel light on, and in an unlit tunnel that makes him pretty much invisible until he comes into range of my tunnel light! Oddly enough, despite such things, I do quite like tunnels as they are something a bit different.