2.5 miles, 2 locks
Another bright and sunny morning a bit cooler due to the breeze following overnight rain. Got to Kegworth deep lock with another boat only to find a lock keeper there. Told him we had moored around the bend for 48 hours, he asked if the planes kept us awake. I replied that we were awoken by a succession of planes around 4.00am even though no flights were scheduled. He said there was a lot of freight that went in at night.
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| The Nottingham Road |
Cruised to Trent Lock passing the huge power station on our old road route to Nottingham with Rob and turned towards Nottingham. Not very nice moorings so decided to stay for lunch and then move on. Before lunch we wandered to the lock itself only to find some very nice pontoon visitor moorings outside the Trent Lock Inn. Paul rushed back to get the boat and we settled in.
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| ... and power station |
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| Trent Lock |
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| Our mooring at Trent Lock |
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| Evening sun on the power station |
After lunch and a read we walked to Long Eaton which is a market town - interesting buildings especially housing the micro pub a Dutch designed black and white building with bright blue and yellow tiles at the top of the frontage.
Tried both the Trent Lock Inn and the Steam Packet before returning to the boat for dinner.