Well, it didn't quite
work out like that. We left our mooring late, since we planned to
travel so little. Just two miles further along, we stopped to look at
the remains of an ancient priory.
In fact, there was little of it
left, so we weren't there long. But on our way back to Kantara, we
diverted into a Pooley Country Park, a nature reserve, a huge area once left bare from
largely unsuccessful coal mining, but now turned into beautiful
woodland, with marsh and lakes. At the far end of the reserve is a
huge hill, created from the waste materials from the mining. The
views from the top were wonderful. The strange structure seems to be simply a piece of sculpture.
When we returned nearly
two hours later, we decided to stay where we were for the night. That
means I'll have to do the eleven Atherstone locks all in one day tomorrow, though we're
hoping that the town's not as inhospitable as we've been told, and that we'll be happy to spend tomorrow night there, rather than feeling the
need to push on through. We shall see!
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