Taking overnight stays in Gayton, Norton Junction and Napton along the way!
Back out in the sticks
Spring is here. At least in theory.
Whilst my stay around Milton Keynes, in the winter, was fine. It’s really not somewhere I’d continue to add my patronage to.
The idea of the boat, as I see it, is to provide the luxury of modern living detached from civilization, which it does quite well.
Milton Keynes is one of the biggest social housing projects in Europe. Although they throw trees, parks, shops and other attractions in, there’s no getting away from that fact.
I’m glad to be out of it and back out in the sticks.
Day 1: Cosgrove to Gayton in the Fields
A bad day weather wise. Wind and hail. Not ideal.
Just one set of 7 locks to get through at Stoke Bruerne, and the tiny ‘stop-lock’ at Cosgrove.
As I came out of Cosgrove, the weather was a little sunny. This soon changed as I got underway, and by the time I’d got my fuel and was ready to get underway proper, the bad weather really set in.
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