hello welcome to this boat moving vlog and welcome to Newark on Trent this is
where we are going to end up today hopefully it's not too far from our
location where lou is in Gunthorpe so we should be okay let's get going
The moorings look pretty good here but they are only two days so I think Lou will
get here and then she'll use the next day which is Sunday or even the bank
holiday Monday because it's a bank holiday weekend to move a little bit
further we shall see I've just taken the bus and now I've got to get the train
from Newark Castle which is where we are here. Beautiful!
A quick ride on the train and now I'm place called Lowdham and I've got a walk
a mile and a bit to get to Lou
on arrival at the Gunthorpe moorings I saw Lou straight away there chatting
away to another boater and then I witnessed this strange sight of a toilet
floating past!
Lou - quickly what happened last time, so you left Nottingham and then...
I left Nottingham, I had a
small lock then a big lock and then the first of the mechanical locks where
there wasn't a lockeeper [Robbie] so we're on to the big locks now? [Lou] big locks, so that's
quite an experience I used a rope slider in the lock
and my key fell off my keyring into the bilge and yeah I managed to come up to
Gunthorpe so yeah
Before we set off let's have a look see how far
we've come so far so on this map here you can see Stratford-on-Avon that's
where we started off up through Wooten Wawen, up to Lapworth Junction onto the Birmingham and Fazeley,
All the way up to Fazeley Junction and then on to the River Trent there and then so we've gone
through Burton on Trent - Lou took it on her own
through Willington just outside of Derby that's where I joined back up again on
the last vlog... we've gone through Nottingham and here we are at Gunthorpe so
this is our next route up to Newark let's crank it
we're in the lock right now and it's been manned for us expertly by a lockeeper
called Neil - thank You Neil - he's actually said to us we needed to call ahead
really we didn't do that but I will know for next time
now let's get ready to properly crank it
right so we're just coming into Newark and yeah we've achieved our journey today
really just got to find somewhere to leave the boat for another week
Although we could keep going on towards Cromwell or add some other locks ahead of us we
don't really want to push it too much because it is quite hot even though it
is just about 22 degrees centigrade it's still hot enough isn't it
we're just debating where to moor exactly there are quite a few mooring
sites in Newark it's just which one's going to be the most secure I think
It's hard to tell until you actually get there
The lock we're on right now is a husband and wife team running the lock
itself, they are both volunteers but I think that's quite cute
it looks like we're back where at least I started this morning and yeah going
past the floating pup and we're just gonna more up on some floating pontoon
up here somewhere
here are the moorings from the beginning of the video but
unfortunately there's no space for us as they're absolutely full up so we've got
a few options we turn round go back the way we came or we keep going... or was
there somewhere else we could leave the boat?
so what we've done is another
option that's coming into this lovely marina this King's marina
just outside of Newark and it's really really nice really friendly so I think
this is gonna be a good stop for us yeah seems really nice so yeah at least we
know the boats could be safe here for a couple of weeks while we're both
busy yeah that's the reality guys! Anyway see you again next time!
that's right, don't think I've forgotten! There's always gonna be a pub of the
week don't you worry about it - well, as long as there is actually a pub in the
area we go to
this little micro pub is called Just Beer although they do serve
cider as well absolutely fantastic place can't recommend it enough
Maeve what you reckon?
[Maeve] Yeah it's alright just wish it a few more dog biscuits - you got any
biscuits? No nothing... oh well maybe at the next pub...