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Denham Deep Lock

After seven days of doing the touristy thing in London we were back on the move today. In convoy with Uncle Mort we set off at 7:00 back along the Paddington Arm to Bull’s Bridge junction, then north...

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Kings Langley

We had planned a 7:30 start, but it was raining and the forecast was for it to ease off. So Andrew suggested we wait until eight o’clock. It was still slightly drizzly but cleared up within an hour. A...

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Winkwell

Only four miles and nine locks today. A later start as we knew it would only be a short day as we were heading for Uncle Mort’s mooring at Winkwell. Sainsbury’s provided us with an opportunity to top...

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Cowroast

5 miles and 13 locks today. A day of mostly locks as we have only move five miles up the canal. A stop for lunch and a food shopping trip in Berkhampstead caused a bit of confusion. Our two boats were...

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Marsworth flight

4 miles 7 locks The plan for today was to go down the Wendover arm and spend the night there prior to doing Marsworth and Aylesbury in the morning. However some inconsiderate #$*$#*#* left a paddle up...

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Marsworth via Aylesbury

For the last few days we have been meeting up with boating friends old and new in Aylesbury. On Friday we started down the Aylesbury arm and at Wilstone we picked up Simon and Karen who had driven up...

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Stoke Hammond

Both us and the Uncle Mort team wanted an early start because of the forecast hot weather to come. So last night we agreed on 6:00am. Just before six Andrew was about and moving fenders etc. We said...

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Cosgrove

15 miles, 3 locks. Another early start because of the hot weather. We knew that we wouldn’t need to do many locks today, but we wanted to get a few miles ‘under our belt’. The second lock of the day...

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Weedon Bec

Another early start, though it was just after 6:30 this time. The sky was overcast and it was a bit chilly, but we expected it to warm up later. After a couple of hours we reached the bottom of the...

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Braunston

Yet another  early start, this  time 6:30.  As we approached the bottom lock of the Buckby flight we could see a couple on a boat about to set off. We shared all tne locks in the flight with them. It...

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