It is still not very nice today but we want to get onto the
Ashby Canal. Steve didn’t want to go
down here but I did as it is not the kind of place that is easy to come back
to. It is a tributary off the Coventry
Canal and is 22 miles long. I had a
conversation with a 91 year old lady who was on a holiday narrowboat with her
93 year old sister last year – she used to have a boat with her husband and
told me that the Ashby Canal was lovely.
It has a very rural feel which is a complete contrast to the housing and
industrial estates on the Coventry Canal. We have
booked a boat yard about five miles along it for when we go back visiting for a
week. We will at least see some of it –
shame it rained most of the morning so we only got as far as the boat yard and
stopped at lunchtime.
Had a shower and walked into Hinkley town centre (a hosiery
manufacturing town that can boast having installed the first stocking machine
in Leicestershire in 1640) – it was a bit of a trek but they have got
everything there. I can’t believe how
cheap property prices are here – you can buy a two bedroom flat for £21,950 or
rent a four bedroom detached house for £375 per calendar month!
It is all very tidy and nicely looked after. We will stay here for the night then chug a
bit further and come back tomorrow.
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| Funny how we don't mind it being sunny two mornings on the trot but when it is grey and dull we don't quite feel the same way! |
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| There are plenty of large canalside properties here. |
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| The Stig - I wonder how a lap in a narrowboat would compare! |
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| Marston Junction |
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| Entering the Ashby Canal. |
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| Extended mobile home with a canalside garden and a conservatory! |
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| !! |
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| Pretty Canal - it seems quite popular with other boaters despite the weather. |
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| Art Deco building in Hinckley. |
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