Town and Country

Leicester city centre

We awoke after a quiet night, to the sound of road sweepers -a bit of a change from the usual sounds of ducks and songbirds! After saying goodbye to Rosemary and Jim on Autumn Glory we decided to spend a bit of time exploring Leicester and so we walked across the castle gardens and into the centre. Angela discovered that Leicester has most of her favourite clothes shops, and we explored them all! We returned to Banjo with some new jeans, and fruit from the large market.

National Space Centre

We toyed with the idea of staying n Leicester for another night, but in the end, cast off and headed north at about 3pm. We passed through some dreary industrial areas but generally the scenary was lovely and included distant views of the space centre.

Where's our bread?

We moored up in Birstall, and became aquanted with the local wildlife. Really nice moorings with several other boats and views across the river to a nature reserve.

Some beautiful birds

We met up with Lorraine and Stuart and their very well behaved dog, who live nearby, and went for a walk around the nature reserve. Huge numbers of swans, geese, ducks and a mammoth greeted us.

The mammoth!

The mammoth was actually a monument - a mammoth was apparently found here. We rounded off the day with a drink at the nearby pub and then fish and chips from the local chippy, on the boat.