Moving again!

Meeting the Conway Castle on the Severn

After watering up at Worcester we left Diglis Basin and dropped down through the two Diglis locks back to the Severn. After a week in Worcester we were really glad to be moving again. The weather was grey but dry, so not too bad.

The journey was uneventful. Just the one lock on the river on the outskirts of Worcester and then a long cruise through the countryside. For a while there were good views of the Malvern Hills and then a section where there were 100 foot high red cliffs on the west side. We met what seemed like a rather large trip boat, the Conway Castle. As is customary, the passengers all waved at us and we waved back.

Overall it was a very pleasant but there was not a lot to see really.

We have moored at Upton on Severn, a delightful little town with an astonishing number of pubs (7 at least) mostly clustered around the river side. The moorings were fully occupied when we arrived and we had visions of another 6 mile cruise on to Tewkesbury, but fortunately the owners of "Luck Dip", another narrowboat of a similar size to ours, kindly agreed to let us moor along side them.

Allowing other boats to mooring alongside , known as "breasting up", is regarded as good practice when space is limited.