• Day 3 Heading home in the daytime !

    September 24 in England ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    Fantastic night - can u go cards c.1945 and now Home !

    The problem with not doing the ring is that we are going back over the same course!
    The reeds ! The trees ! The locks ! The odd tunnel !
    You can read some of my drivel or just reread the first two days

    Leaving Droitwich and salt remnants ! Wych" refers to a "salt town" or a place associated with salt production, derived from the Old English word "wic," meaning "a place" or a "brine spring". There was a lot around here !

    Btw the cill on the canal ? Not the sill on the window sill ! Apparently one is industrial and the other isn’t !

    It’s a sunny day !
    Oh no - clouds !

    Chateau Impney the old salt kings home under repair and not an active hotel.

    A tunnel ! A bloody horn ! thanks Jezza !

    So top three reasons for barge holidays - Hugh ?
    Silence
    Slow
    Camaraderie!

    Somewhere on the list might be scenery ?

    Andrew ?
    Scenery
    Camaraderie
    Fresh air ! ( after a curry)

    Jezza ?
    Slowness
    Not having to talk to people
    The scenery !

    Jayne? With rationale!
    -Quiet peaceful and slow
    -Closest to camping which I hate and I can have Personal bathroom
    -On water all those reflections and so pretty !

    Mine ?
    Interesting things to see , cand there are not many and catch up chat and banter …

    So the ring cycle ? Wagner’s opus ? It’s because there’s a ring that’s made and stolen ! But why a cycle ?
    Well ! It’s a Connected Narrative: The four operas, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung, form a single, overarching story. Bit like a barge trip too

    And we’re back … at the same pub we drank in as the better pub is not serving food so it’s the bridge pub … kfc burger ?

    - Forest Betis! No tv just the radio ! 2 - 2 bah!
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