Braunston Tunnel

About an hour from where we moored was the Braunston Tunnel, the seventh longest navigable tunnel on the network at about 2km. The canal to it was very picturesque. We had the tunnel to ourselves for the entire length of the journey, your sense of time warped by a tunnel-end that never seems to get closer. The whole thing took about 40 minutes to navigate and we pulled up shortly after the bridge rather than go through Braunston Locks.
Having come up the seven Buckby locks, we'd not realised we'd be going down through the Braunston Locks and therefore begun to understood the restrictions with both flights being fed from a reservoir in Daventry. Whilst Braunston canalside was historic and pretty, the town was painfully boring. Albeit a Sunday, I'm not sure it would have been anymore lively on any other day! Light rain set in as we walked back up the locks, and got heavier during our lunch at The Admiral Nelson. A lazy afternoon on the boat after that, listening to the rain, relaxing, and watching Wednesday...which fortunately we'd downloaded as there was no signal whatsoever!Read more