It'd be faster to walk...

A wander through the antique shops of Weedon Bec resulted in a few "bespoke" purchases by Mum and Kev. We pushed off the moorings about midday heading for Stoke Bruerne, through the third longest tunnel on the network. However at Blisworth we came up behind the slowest canal boat ever, and we tailed him into the tunnel. Not only did he have no lights on his boat, he also seemed to have absolutely no control over his boat whatsoever. After passing two oncoming boats very early on, he then pinballed down 2.5km of canal and Ben kept having to put us into idle as even tickover meant we were catching him. The tunnel was supposed to take 43 mins to traverse. It took us nearly double that. Some onlookers at the tunnel exit even commented on it to us! We definitely deserved a pint this evening.Read more