Made it to Banbury and thence to Cropredy

These cows appeared to take exception to Barney 

when we were moored at Kings Sutton

as they made a heck of a racket when they saw him.

I was glad I was separated by a fence and a a stretch of water.

We moored just past the centre for a day and a half whilst we had visitors.  Two lunches out.  Once with Iain, Christine and Fiona and the next day with Tony and Di.

Two good pubs visited.  The Reindeer on the first day and the White Horse on the second.  The White Horse was a great pub with a very reasonably priced menu.  I availed myself of the Pensioners special....Fish Chips and Peas and a pudding for £6....can`t do better than that.   The lure was that one of the choices of pudding was steamed syrup sponge and custard......so decadent.  Both pubs recommended but I think the White Horse was the winner.  It is a little further out of town and was incredibly quiet but very comfortable.

After the departure of Tony and Di we moved out a little as Banbury is gearing up for its Canal Day on Sunday.  There were notices saying that the centre moorings were suspended from Friday lunchtime to Monday morning for boats who had booked in for the Canal Day.

We moored just over half a mile out round the corner where it is somewhat easier to do a shop at Tescos.  

We met up briefly with Bones again, although no time for wine this time!

On Saturday we decided to walk in for our cooked breakfast before making tracks for the day.   The goal was to get half way up the Claydon Flight, but in the event we had both had enough by the time we reached Cropredy, I think the cooked breakfast had worn us out.

Getting ready for tomorrow.

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Just before reaching Cropredy I decided to take a picture of a dummy on a moored boat
but I was not prepared for what happened when we went past..

Wednesday  27th

Total distance:3.55 miles 
Elapsed time:2h1m22s 
Locks:2
Bridges:17 
Average speed:1.75 mph (2.74 lock/mph) 



Saturday  30th

Total distance:3.71 miles 
Elapsed time:3h19m26s
 Locks:4
Bridges:12 
Average speed:1.12 mph (2.32 lock/mph)