Thursday, 20 October 2016

Long Itchington



Here I am Rune
Distance 7.8 miles
Total 2173 Locks  90 Tunnels
Running total mileage 3105.0 miles 

Today’s cruise was a ‘proper’ mileage (7.8 miles) and a good number of locks (13) so I think we’ve earned our pasta meal! We had the good fortune to meet up with a couple of blokes coming down Stockton Flight of locks and by teaming up with them we whipped through the flight in about an hour which is reasonably good going. The guy working the locks said that when they had come up the flight it had taken them over an hour and a half so we have saved them some time as well. 

We are, however, still away from civilisation here in that there remains no O2 phone signal at all so we still cannot make the phone calls that we want to be making.

Where I’d like to get to for tomorrow night is about 10 miles away and 12 locks so it is debatable as to whether or not we’ll reach it, particularly as we need a supermarket stop and an elsan stop, we’ll have to see.

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