Bank Holiday Weekend - Braunston and beyond

There's a bit of a theme developing here. Undecided about what to do with the weekend, what with dodgy weather forecasts and the possibility of a trip to Crick for the boat show, we decided that the only thing to do was the same thing we pretty much always do and head to Braunston.

A cool and showery start to the day, which was good for the nutters runners in the Grand Union race (good luck to them: Birmingham to London down the GU towpath, about 145 miles) who came past us in fits and starts all day. Braunston was as busy as ever, probably full of canaloraks like us who can't keep away.

We had a relatively quiet run through the locks and on through the tunnel. It's nice to see that they have finally finished the work to fix the landslide at the tunnel mouth. It looks a bit stark now but it will green up in no time, I'm sure. They've fixed the drainage through the towpath too, which no longer runs with water from the slope of the cuttings above.

Then on to the junction with the Leicester arm, where we turned Caracol and moored, then walked to the top of Buckby Locks for a swift 'alf.