09-14 Grendon on Coventry Canal

Monday 14th September:  Rained overnight and was wet, grey, miserable and mizzling this morning.  We managed to set off about 9am and aimed to get through the 11 locks at Atherstone before it started raining heavily.  In  the event despite a speedy descent with plenty of boats going the other way

and help from volunteers in the first few locks it was raining heavily before we got to the last two locks and while we watered up at the services at the bottom of the flight and while we moored up just after bridge 50 about 2:30pm.  Had to squeeze in as three other boats already on our favoured mooring spot and it is more than often empty.  Quite close to the West Coast main line here but a small hill shields us from the noise.  By the time we had had a late lunch and cup of tea we could here thunder rolling around and that was forecast for tomorrow!