Minworth

An easy day in stark contrast to yesterday.  We set off at 7.05 am in anticipation of beating the queues at Glascote Locks.  Had it not been for a boat pulling off the bank head of us just before the locks we would have been first behind a boat going down and one coming up. Leaving the locks we passed 5 boats heading up before Fazeley.  One boater reported a 15 boat queue yesterday, but Pat couldn't hear exactly where. Turning into the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal we stopped at the deserted visitor moorings so that we could get a newspaper.  The B&F was pretty well deserted.  No hold-ups, no queues, moorings available.   We went up the Curdworth Locks in quick time although the wind made hovering around somewhat tricky.  Lack of other traffic gave the opportunity to hold in the lock throats whilst draining the locks.  We decided to stop for the night by the Kingsley Arms as a location not too close to likely bandit problems further on.   Good terrestrial Freeview TV here. It's only about 5 miles from the transmitter and straight down the cut!