Saturday, July 16, 2011

Rained Off

We managed to find a decent mooring last night in the middle of nowhere, on the River Kennet.

 River Kennet mooring
It's day three of the Open and it's raining hard - so the obvious thing is not to move on, but stay, moored up, watch the tv and hope it's a little drier tomorrow. 

Burghfield Mill is three quarters of a mile down stream of our mooring, with the outskirts of Reading just out of sight. When we move on tomorrow we've 5 miles to go before joining the Thames. We expect tomorrow to be a long day, to include a Tesco stop plus watering up etc.  Five locks will takes us through Reading and onto the Thames, then heading north through Pangbourne, Goring and with some luck finding a mooring at Wallingford. Unfortunately it seems as though it's due to rain for most of the day, and to be honest it can be pretty miserable when that happens.

Took the following pic when moored at Kintbury - boating as it used to be.



That's it for now - must get back to the Open.

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