Another short day today – more river Soar … through Mountsorrel, Barrow-on-Soar and Sileby Mill – all possible flood risk country but calm & serene today. Hardly saw another boater and we’ve yet to share a lock – weirdly quiet. We moored at the Marston’s pub for lunch but quickly moved on to moor outside the Albion, outside the town. Hmm, first impressions . .. well, you could be in any town – looks all the same … so far, thumbs down I’m afraid. We also gave the pocket-sized basin a miss too. We do like a quiet spot. A quiet spot with a pub – even better. Homemade spaggly-boggly tonight. We plan to stay put here as there’s a lot of rain forecast tomorrow.
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view looking back at Mountsorrel
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one of the awfully nice houses coming into Barrow-on-Soar
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and it was deep too …
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more than Seven swans a swimming . .
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final mooring – fairly quiet and the famous Albion pub just 100 yds away
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Very friendly, old-fashioned pub with all home-made food (lunchtimes only). They were serving Nottingham’s “Legend”, Hopback’s “Groovy Mover” and their own Albion. Keith, the landlord was very friendly & welcoming.Their steak & kidney pie was smashing, so glad we stayed the extra day. It also rained all day – as promised. So, some good planning. Off we soar to Nottingham tomorrow, well Trent Lock anyway.