Perfect Harmony

Perfect Harmony
Moored at Huntingdon

Tuesday 29 March 2011

29th March '11

Left Ely after lunch heading towards Denver Sluice to get through tomorrow. We have passed through the most boring countryside in the world! One stretch was over 3 miles of completely straight river!

This was a stretch of it that was interesting because of the bridge - very few landmarks to tell where we were!


Shows how boring it was - I found this amusing - kept a look out for the Billy Goats Gruff but they were nowhere to be seen!



This was the view this evening from one of the windows - thought it looked lovely. We are at Brandon Creek and there is a picnic site here next to the road. Quite a nice spot and not far to go for tomorrows adventure. May even get the life-jackets out that we have to have (by law) on the river and haven't used so far!

No locks today but neither was there any water or rubbish disposal sites! Oh for the canals....

For those who want to plot our travels, once we get through tomorrows ordeal we head through the Middle Levels which are basically big drainage ditches until we get to Peterborough. From there we head up the Nene until we get to Northampton where we finally hit the canals. Middle levels are a bit over 40 miles and then it's about 50 miles on the river - at 3mph plus about 1,000,000 locks on the Nene it's not going to be a quick journey.

After Northampton we shall decide which way we are going to head for Willington but it's likely to be the southerly route! (no rivers!)

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