Banbury

Here I am Rune

Distance 7.4 miles

Total 3837 Locks  241 Tunnels

Running total mileage 5647.1 miles

Arrived at Banbury as planned, just after the rain had arrived unfortunately which meant that I then had to find somewhere to hang my wet weather gear once we’d stopped for lunch. Far less boat movements down on this part of the Oxford Canal, it is possible that some had been deterred by the CRT notices advising of bank repairs at Fenny Compton which seemed a bit worrying until your fully read them. All they are saying is that ‘winding’ at Fenny Compton isn’t possible between 0800 and 1600 hrs each day (they have their workboat in the way during those hours).Other than that everything that you could do at Fenny Compton, you still can.

The centre of Banbury is a bit of a building site at the moment as  they’ve demolished a multi-storey car park and are putting a hotel in it’s place. I’m expecting to be woken up at 8.00am tomorrow by work on the site resuming.

I hope to get somewhere about halfway between here and Oxford tomorrow, but it is weather dependent.