Guess what the weather was like today. We set off at 9.00 from what turned out to be a peaceful mooring - no-one joined us, the bikers on the A5 all went home and the trains fell silent until about 6.30 when we were awake anyway.
No locks today (saving them all for tomorrow!). We saw our first swan family of the trip today; we'd seen several single adults but no cygnets.Much of the towpath on this section of the Grand Union has been well strimmed; you might say, too well strimmed as there were no wild flowers left. However, in some places the flowers had been left to grow making mooring difficult. "Can't please all of the people all of the time" scenario, I would think.
CRT are busy dredging some of the canal between Weedon and Bugbrooke and they have prepared areas on the offside to take the dredgings.
We arrived at Gayton at 12.15 - this is where we make the turn to head for Northampton, but first there is work to do. We moored by the sanitary station to fill up with water and to do a pump out, and then moved onto the Northampton Arm and moored up. This is a pleasant mooring overlooking the marina, but this time instead of the A5, we've got the A43!
Lunch again was on the late side (1.45) and we then spent a very lazy afternoon doing nothing very much. By about 5.00 it had cooled enough for us to venture out and walk up to Gayton village. There is a church, some lovely houses, one pub and not much else, but there are some lovely views over the Northamptonshire countryside.
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