Thus far we have been slowly climbing the Chiltern Escarpment. Today we reached the top at the Tring summit and descended the steeper section down to Marsworth which we reached by lunchtime. The day had started with fine rain, but the weather soon cleared although remaining cloudy. We were very much slow off the mark this morning. Three Wyvern Shipping boats passed having been previously moored two locks down by the pub. I recognised them from Bruce Napier's blog as the Incite, Team Building exercise. Every Wednesday the three boats do Berkhamsted to Leighton Buzzard. They were followed immediately by two boats, one the lone boater from yesterday and the other a private boat not known to us. Becoming tail end Charlie we were going to have a hard time of it turning all the locks round - and possibly held up by the last two boats. Well the Wyvern Boats just disappeared of course and so did the others and we settled down to a steady pace alternating with waits for several opposite direction boats. We were receiving reports from them of the high pressure passage of the Wyvern three with the crew running madly about shouting orders. Once over the top things speeded up considerably and we stopped short of Grove Lock - our initial objective - as the mooring there is not spectacular and the clean piling below Church Lock was very inviting.
Church Lock, from the mooring
Pat's Kitchen
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