Fixed Alternator at Ely and Onward We Go!

Ely to Thetford, River Gt Ouse, 2.5 miles 0 locks

Bridge Boats hopefully have fixed the alternator alignment problem today, now perhaps we can get on our way down to Bedford.  I am really looking forward to that.

Ely was really busy with boats, there is a festival of some sort happening this weekend, and after topping up with diesel, a new gas bottle, water, rubbish and loo cassette emptying we set off for the moorings not far from Ely near to Thetford.  It’s very quiet here and Lucy and I went on one of my most favourite walks… Just look at the countryside around here, its outstanding

That building in the very distance towards the left of the pic is Ely Cathedral by the way..

It was quite a while ago that I did this walk, maybe 6 weeks, and the corn has grown a good foot and a half since, and one of the fields that had tiny plants in now shows itself as a field full of peas!!  Delicious they were too, only one pod I had, so sweet.. not ready for harvesting yet, but still very tastey! … I am sure the farmer won’t miss just the one pod!

Tis the weekend, normally we don’t move at weekends because it tends to be busy with boats rushing about everywhere, but to be honest there are so few boats here on the East Anglian rivers it wouldn’t make any difference which days we travelled.. but I like it here, maybe I can persuade Vic to stay a while.