November 2016 – Brutus Maximus on Tour

Well, below is a picture Brutus at his winter holiday home in Devizes, however not quite where we’d planned. Having booked a winter mooring spot at a marina at the top of the 29 lock Caen Hill flight, we arrived only for the marina to realise they couldn’t find the space they thought they had ! So, plan B – a telephone call to another marina at the bottom of the 29 locks (where we spent last winter), and a positive outcome for Brutus. We had thought that we’d been through the last lock of this trip, so dropping through another twenty nine was rather unexpected ! With a bit of help from a couple of friends from the ‘new’ marina it was mostly staightforward – around five hours.

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Now the extra locks mean that our statistics for the trip change slightly, however out of interest we have traveled through 22 counties, passed through 60 tunnels, worked through 1,465 locks, and cruised 1,875 miles, and enjoyed every minute (we can even smile about Blackburn now memories of it are fading !).

As a final look at places we’ve been, and things we’ve seen, here is a selection ……..