Sharing a lock with 'Rosie and Jim'
We awoke after a really quiet night to some sunshine and a lot of wind again. We hadn't seen another boat since mooring up, and then 5 came along, all heading in the wrong direction, setting the locks against us! This section of canal has an abundance of locks which are hard to operate and seem to funnnel the wind to make steering very tricky.
Leicester City's ground
Just before a lock here there is an enormous wier- fortunately the river Soar was very calm today!
There be dragons here!
After an arduous 12 locks - the latter few gratefully shared with Rosemary and Jim on their shiny new boat, we arrived in Leicester at the end of a festival which had culminated in Dragon Boat racing. The Dragon boats were moored in the gated moorings so we turned round and hovered for about an hour until they cleared the pontoon and then got a good spot for us and Rosemary and Jim's boat.
City centre moorings
BW lock the gates at 7pm but boaters use the BWB keys to come and go. After dinner G went in search of Sunday papers and successfully returned after quite a hike - the above photo was taken en route.
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