And we start to blog again! On 15th May Pegasus left Cowroast for the last time, heading for Crick, on the Leicester arm of the Grand Union. After a hectic few days with family and festivals, Lyds and I departed for our new mooring at Cropredy. 5 days later we caught the train home, and…

Preferred route from Cowroast Marina to Crick Marina Entrance No 1 Summary of trip This is a trip of 59 miles, 1 furlong and 46 locks from Cowroast Marina to Crick Marina Entrance No 1.This will take 28 hours and 19 minutes which is 4 days, 19 minutes at 7 hours per day. Preferred route from Crick Marina…

3 Days to go Pegasus still securely moored exactly where it was the night before – feeeeeeeling good. Steve is working at the back (sorry stern) playing with electrics and engine oil and I’m wondering when I can get my oil out, the sun cream variety not the cooking one. The sun is flooding the…

Tuesday 23 May did not start with any sort of reminiscent routine normality.  We had an early night the night before with the intention of an early start in the morning, which only one of us achieved before 08:30. The other one of us languished in bed and, having looked at the outside temperature from…

Today started with some kind of normality in that it was as close to our normal retired, not doing up a boat, routine. We had a civilised breakfast meeting and, still refusing to look at maps, I asked how far we were away from Crick, the biggest, most popular inland waterways festival in the UK for…

When you are retired it’s difficult enough to know what day it is, never mind if it’s a weekend or not. I can see most of you nodding from here! Our destination for Friday night’s mooring was Gayton Marina. As we approached I could see it on our starboard side, with a recently mown lawn…