The fridge was beginning to look a bit empty and we could see that
there is a Sainsburys in Hinkley which is just over ½ mile from the canal,
however by the time we had found somewhere to moor it was just over 1
mile!! We walked to the store – it
wasn’t an onerous walk but we decided that, with the shopping, we would get a
bus back. We could see that there were
two if not three buses going our way so we hailed the first one and got
on. I asked the Oriental driver if the
bus went over the canal and he hadn’t foggiest what I was talking about! In the end I just swiped my bus pass. Richard’s bus pass has expired so he got on
and asked “how much for the same journey?”
This threw the Oriental driver completely as he had no idea where I was
going! Eventually, after a lot of
tapping on his ticket machine, he asked Richard for £1.60 who was horrified and
couldn’t believe it was so expensive! He
has had a bus pass for 8 years now so hasn’t had to pay for bus fares – he
reckons it should have been 1s 6d not £1.60!
We got moving after lunch and did another 4 miles before pulling
over. Richard said that most of the nice
places were already taken but where we are is OK but it is still so windy.
I had bought a small piece of lamb for dinner however when I opened the
vacuum pack it sprung up to be quite a large piece – enough for two meals! When I picked it up in Sainsburys I thought
to myself that it was a) small for a leg and b) expensive for the size but
those thoughts didn’t get transferred to the part of my brain that says “hey
something is wrong here”! I find this
happens quite a lot these days! However
it was a lovely piece of meat.
The Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal is a 31 mile long canal which connected the
mining district around Moira with the Coventry Canal. It was opened in 1804,
and a number of tramways were constructed at its northern end, to service
collieries. The canal was taken over by the Midland Railway in 1846, and
remained profitable until the 1890s, after which it steadily declined. Around 9
miles passed through the Leicestershire coal field, and was heavily affected by
subsidence, with the result that the section from Moira, southwards to
Snarestone, was progressively closed in 1944, 1957 and 1966, leaving 22 miles
of navigable canal.
7.34 miles
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