Family Weekend take us back to Wicken

Today – Moored Stretham Old Engine, Old West River
Tues 23rd – Stretham Ferry Bridge to Stretham Old Engine, 1.5 miles 0 locks
Mon 22nd – Wicken to Stretham Ferry Bridge, 8 miles 1 lock
Sun 21st – Stretham Ferry Bridge to Wicken Fen, 8 miles 1 lock
Sat 20th – Junc Reach Lode/River Cam to Stretham Ferry Bridge, Old West River, 6 miles 0 locks

We left early on Saturday and arrived at empty GOBA moorings at the Lazy Otter at Stretham… I was very relieved, and we moored right at the end where there was plenty of room for the tents and no footpath on down past us. 

By evening time everyone had arrived and it was chaos for a while until they all got used to the confined space available for people, dogs and luggage! After that it was organised chaos for the rest of the weekend!

Saturday evening was beautiful, had a barbie and once we had stuffed the kids into the tents for the night, carried on outside under candlelight enjoying until very late in the evening. 

Sunday we uprooted tents etc etc and cruised to Wicken Fen.. it was quite shallow this time, and NP was certainly much heavier with her extra cargo, but we got there…

  

Here the boys putting up tent city at Wicken before…

Yep, bbq again… phew I must admit I was fully stuffed after this weekend! 

It’s horrid when they all go, I had a bit of a tear this time.. but what a lovely weekend we all had together, it couldn’t have worked out better in the end.

Today we are just a little further downstream from the Lazy Otter and Tesco has just delivered here for me.. well my fridge was almost empty!  It’s very stormy today, and it has given me a chance to catch up on all the delayed email replies.. just one I can’t get through to Pat and Paul with an aol email account.. Pat and Paul it keeps on getting bounced perhaps you could send me a different email to reply to?

A rest day then for us today.. hopefully tomorrow we will be on the move again to find somewhere nice to ‘hide’ for the bank holiday rush of boats!