Sunday 28th August
9 miles, 4 locks
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| Passing Thrumpton Weir as we leave Trent \Lock |
A brighter day just the occasional couple of spots of rain here and there.
Rachael rang to say they were coming to visit. Set off from Trent Lock along the very wide River Trent, not catching a glimpse of the Attenborough nature reserve which runs alongside due to the height of the river banks.
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| Trent Bridge |
After two locks we were back on the canal the Beeston cut joining the Nottingham canal at Lenton Chain. Rachael, Ross and Anna joined us saying the moorings where we had planned to stop were not very salubrious - they were right, they weren't, so we carried on down a further two locks to rejoin the river turning right to moor on the county hall steps.
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| Moored near Trent Bridge |
After an hour or so feeding the swans, geese and ducks with the duck food remaining from Bridge 61 at Foxton, enjoying a cup of tea and cake and blowing bubbles our visitors set off home.
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| Visitors |
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| Feeding the swans |
There were a lot of floral tributes round a tree and on googling found they were for a 39 year old who went missing last Sunday early hours and was dragged out of the river on Wednesday- very sad.
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| War Memorial |
Walked the loop, saw huge war memorial and gardens on the opposite bank and then strolled to the Embankment pub which was originally Boots number 2 store. The bar was called the Dispensary. Paul had a pint of Choc Ice Cream craft beer at 6.2% and £8.50!
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| Our mooring from the war memorial |
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| An interesting pint! |
