Old Age Travellers around Sells Green and Melksham

Moored Sells Green, K&A Canal

I have never been to Melksham.  I have been to many of the towns around here like Calne and Chippenham, but never Melksham, so today we took the 12 minute bus ride from Sells Green into the town.  It is always nice to nip on a bus and go see some of what is around wherever you moor sometimes.. we enjoyed on a lovely day and had our first look at the Avon as it sped under the bridge at the bottom end of town.  Of course we have no idea whether it is high or not.. not knowing the norm you see, for this area..

We have been moored here for the weekend, and both of those days were nice too, in fact when Ann and I took the dogs out on Sunday we persuaded the guys to come along, and hey why not a picnic as well! And how about we do a cache too while we are at it.. mind you I had to solve the clues on Saturday night first….

Armed with the new co-ordinates we set off towards Seend.. I stopped the search party close to where I though the cache was, and hey presto Vic found it!!.. here the boys showing off the box of goodies with our narrowboats moored in the valley below..

Loads of these ‘treasures’ are hidden all over England in boxes or other containers full of goodies and a log book to log your visit.. you can also log your visit online just as you see we have done under the name of the_narrowboaters.. well an obvious name for us don’t you think?!

A little further on we came to a few folk having a chat.. obviously meeting on the path.. they did not let us get further up the hill out of earshot though when I heard…. “Ah not new age travellers, more like old age travellers”…. teehee… not only are we water gypsies, but also old age errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr travellers now!!!.. It must be the scarf that Lucy wears me thinks ..… or perhaps something else.. it can’t surely be anything to do with my age!!!

The church at Seend is splendid..

The views from the other side of it are too, and after our lunch picnic a little further on, the four of us walked back to the boats..

Oh yes, these are a couple of pics I took over the weekend might make you smile somewhat, I will leave you with these then this evening….

And from Melksham today…

Teehee!