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We spent yesterday as a 'day at sea', enjoying canal boat living whilst Storm Benjamin passed through. A few pints, a few webinars, and nachos for tea!

This morning we headed down to the Buckby locks, and were greeted by an understandably unhappy CRT volunteer who told us the lower locks had lost their water overnight causing very low canal levels, and yet a pair of boats had been let up the flight. We went through the top lock whilst he went to the second to open all four paddles and flush some water through. The pictures he showed us of the canal levels were quite alarming. By the time we got to lock 4, another CRT volunteer was equally unhappy as the pair of boats were now grounding out in the pound below the lock so we had to wait for them to sort themselves before we could go through. We also picked up a boat partner here who, despite claims of many canal boating holidays, smacked their boat as rather high speed into the far lock gates!

By the time we got out, we were able to wend our way through to Weedon Bec along an idyllic canal in time to visit the antique shops. I was delighted with my find of the smallest oil lamp I've ever seen! We grabbed the car for a Tesco run to Daventry, and Ben found a fantastic craft beer pub for a brief stop. The owner was kind enough to let us have third-pints so we could try lots!

As evening descended, we headed back to the Roman Way Brewery for drinks and dinner at the Moo Hatch.Leer más