Polesworth to Hartshill

We wanted to make an early start so as to beat the boats in front of us on the mooring to Atherstone Locks. However by the time we left there were already 3 gone.

We needed to fill up with water somewhere so thought about the water point at bridge 48.  As we approached there already was a boat filling up but they looked to be moving off so we held back and moored up when they left.

We filled up with water and emptied the rubbish and set off again.  Only to reverse 2 minutes later as we'd left the adapter for the hose on the tap!

Atherstone Bottom Lock was reached and we had to wait for 'Bletchley' to come out.

We were following a boat up and they were helping us by emptying the lock they just left if nothing was coming the other way.  We passed quite a few boats coming down and reached the top just before 1pm.

We decided to call it a day in the countryside at Bridge 33.

We had lunch then took a walk along the canal to where we had moored on the way up to visit the Anchor pub where we had a lovely couple of hours before returning to the boat for dinner.