Relaxing and The National Waterways Festival

This weekend – Moored remotely below Offord Lock, Great River Ouse

Fishing, walking, thinking about how British Waterways can be fair to all who are threatened to put in a bracket of “higher rate” for our British Waterways Licence, watching tupperware tart carts charging up river from their marinas then charging even faster down river to put them back again in readiness for work tomorrow, doing some puppy training, catching up on one of my projects on the computer and just sitting outside doing nothing has taken up all weekend!

My backyard today then..

Oh,  and browsing my blog collegues’s sites….

Andrew Denny is going to the National Waterways Festival. but he forgot something.. to book his boat in.. silly Andrew!

Well I have done some scribbling with my pencil.. I am good at that.. Just to help Andrew out I have worked out how far he will have to walk from Granny Buttons to the Festival site when he eventually gets there..

Andrew reports on his blog  that there are already over 430 boats booked in.. so lets see, take an average of 55ft or so for each boat.. if the boats are double moored then Andrew is going to have to walk 2 miles!  Ah but, if the boats are three abreast then it is only a bit of a shorter walk – just under a mile and a half!

If it rains…. Ah I won’t go there.. I do hope the towpath is wide enough for all this traipsing about to and from boats!

Hey Andrew, how about camping on the site, take your tent to save a walk.. or better still, moor on the bus route and catch a bus to the entrance.. but hang on, there will be miles and miles of traffic jams.. ah but the train station is only a short walk away! 

The nearest train station is Runcorn East. (Check with Traveline on 0870 608 2608 for the latest information on services over the Bank Holiday Weekend). Look out for the temporary Festival signs on the route over the canal at Borrow’s Bridge to the pedestrian entrance to the Festival off Red Brow Lane.

 That’s the solution!  That old saying “It’s quicker by train” sounds dead right for visiting the National Andrew!