A lovely bright and sunny morning.
We set off just before 10am and headed to Fobney Lock. It was then down onto the River Kennet for
our journey through Reading. I was
rather worried about County Lock as I had heard all sorts of scare stories
about the current but in fact it wasn’t a problem at all. I had heard a story from Mrs. Tippy yesterday
that a hire boat had gone into County Lock and the hirer had abandoned
ship! Strangely enough there was an
abandoned hire boat above Fobney Lock so maybe this was a case of Chinese
whispers!
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| Abandoned hire boat |
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| Lock waiting at Fobney Lock |
We went round into Forbury Loop by the jail and moored up as I wanted
to go into town. We have been round the
loop before but never moored – it is lovely round there and only a stone’s
throw from the shops :-) I managed to get
myself a new pair of trousers – well maybe two and a top – and found quite a
large Sainsburys (for an in town one) and got all my shopping. Sue on Festina Lente had said that the
moorings outside Tesco on the Thames was full of permanent moorers so I was
pleased to get my shopping in town.
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| The weir at County Lock |
Back to Mary H for lunch and then out onto the Thames :-) We finally made it at 1.40pm over nine days
from originally leaving Newbury. It was
then up to Better Boating for diesel (battling the stream all the way – just
glad we are going down stream) then a turn around and off down towards
London. By the way, there were a couple
of spaces outside Tesco!
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| How about those solar panels? |
Having been told by Festina Lente that they didn’t find many Lockies on
duty both Sonning and Shiplake Locks had them!
We pulled over at Wargrave Marsh and sat out on the rear deck in the
evening sunshine :-)
10.18 miles
5 locks
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