Radford Semele

Here I am Rune

Distance 4.3 miles

Total 2182 Locks  90 Tunnels

Running total mileage 3108.3 miles 

Despite the best of intentions we didn’t make it to Warwick today, only travelled as far as Radford Semele, so we didn’t even get to Leamington Spa. It’s not as though we are in any rush though so I’m not unduly concerned. The only matter that is a bit of a nuisance is that we still haven’t got to a location with an O2 phone signal, things had better improve when we get to Warwick!

Today’s trip was largely uneventful other than a short delay at Bascote Staircase lock. This was as a result of the boat coming up not having worked a staircase before and not being aware that the top lock needs to be full before you start going through it. In fairness they did quite well to get stuck on the cill between the two locks (they were coming up)since I would have thought that if you take two lock fulls of water out of the top lock without refilling it you’d be lucky to get out of the bottom chamber at all since the cill must be almost uncovered! No harm done and they were soon on their way.

Tomorrow for definite we should get to Warwick (weather permitting).