Wednesday, 16 June 2010

The delights of Banbury

We’ve had an indulgent day in Banbury, though I can’t recommend the mooring we used last night, the last one before Sovereign Wharf. No worries about troublemakers or anything, it’s just opposite a large bakery, which carried on receiving deliveries of flour throughout the night.

Since the whole process was very noisy, especially when they started bouncing the tank to shake the last of the flour out, it was a bit disruptive.

This morning we ambled into the remarkable Banbury shopping centre, exploring the ginnels which run every which way. A call at the PO to collect our Thames licence which Elanor had despatched poste restante was unsuccessful; seemingly, Banbury’s post is routed through Swindon in Wiltshire (why?), and doesn’t arrive until later in the day.

In between one trip and the nest, we moved Sanity Again to a mooring outside the Castle Quay mall; another example of the way in which Banbury’s attitude to its canal has changed.

Returning to the PO this afternoon was more productive, and we now have the magic bit of paper.

I can’t recommend Banbury too highly as a place to break your journey; you could spend days prowling round and still find little nooks and crannies to treasure, not to mention shops selling this sort of stuff:



Tomorrow, off into the wilds again.

1 comment:

Lola said...

Reading with interest.

Be wary of the 48 hour mooring south of the lock just past the water point, very popular un-tieing point, as I encountered in may this year.