To Wycombe Wanderers

Saturday 23rd August
Travelled to High Wycombe by train and used supporters bus to get to Adams Park. Picked up our season ticket card and met up with Tom and Lisa to see the game against Lincoln. Good result 1.0 to Wycombe. Went home briefly to deal with post and tidy garden. Caught 33 bus from Castlefield to Town and walked through to station. Got train back to Banbury and arrived back at just before 8pm. Banbury is a great centre for a travelling boater- shops, launderette, station with good links to London and Wycombe, Arts Centre, Sports Centre, cinema etc

Friday 22nd August

Spent the day in Banbury sorting out supplies and using the excellent launderette.

Thursday 21st August

Jim form RCR replaced fan belt and checked engine over. Ready to set off late morning and cruised as far as Somerton Deep Lock. Here we join a queue of eight other boats waiting to pass through. This took two and a quarter hours. Met some boaters from Peterborough. Had conversations with talkative Becky from NB Snails Pace who were two boats ahead of us in the queue. Cruised on to Banbury and moored up below the lock.
5 locks today.

Wednesday 20th August
BROKEN FAN BELT
Showery day. Leave late morning and cruise to Lower Heyford where we get gas and replenish some supplies. Very helpful people and a good shop for boaters. Stop for lunch and then shortly afterwards batteries stop charging and engine whines. Pull in and discover broken fan belt. Call RCR. Snails Pace moor behind us. The girls on board are a bit worried by the cows and bulls in the field. Becky scrubs the roof of Snails Pace. Both girls fish for crayfish and later play frisbee on the field.