Heading for Stratford Upon Avon we had worked 14 locks and by then the sun was making it hard work on locks with no shade.
We stopped at Wootton Wawen, filled with Diesel, replaced a missing windlass, sampled some ice creams and soon worked out it was cooler in the shade of the boat with everything opened to catch the breeze than doing locks so that's where we moored.
Along the way there where some interesting old cottages that had been well cared for....
Barrel- roof and split stable type door......
Side view... plants and free range eggs for sale...
Another barrel roof, barrel planters and hangin baskets...
Nice and tidy all around...
Barrel roof, great garden and landscape......
With the other half of the house being flat roofed.....
Unusual but styley architecture...
Not beside the canal .. In Wootton Wawen...
Wootton Wawen...
Some people fix and alter their photo's. The following two have not been altered, this building is still standing and being used....
The Bulls Head pub Wooton Wawen.... Those wall lines are for Real....
Probably the only building that looks better the More you've had to drink....
It was an Aqueduct day as well, cast iron water troughs carrying the canal across rivers, roads etc...
Approach to Bucket Lock over Aqueduct...
Leaving Wootton Wawen marina.....
Edstone Aqueduct, 200 yrds long. The tow path runs at the lower level at the bottom of the trough not at the usual top of the trough....
For some diesel money Leonie's doing jobs....
Who says Mother In Laws Don't Shut Up... Hot sun and locks equal sleep...
Today, Saturdays been a little cooler but pleasant, made Stratford so more news from the basin tomorrow....
Never thought I'd see the day having Cloud in the UK....
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