Tuesday 2nd May

Slightly later start this morning, with that misty promise of a hot day to come.

Up north to Fazeley Junction, where we head east on the Coventry Canal;
through a flight of locks at Atherstone, finally mooring for the night
at Hartshill: site of the last pub before Nuneaton.

Scenery an extreme contrast of beautiful Warwickshire countryside punctuated
with the industrial scars of slag heaps, quarry pits etc.

On a culinary note, some of our readers have enquired as to our diet.
After a healthy breakfast of strawberry jam and coleslaw (yesterday's)
on toast and cheese sandiches with crisps for lunch our evening meal
sported a poorly cremated pizza, with one of those new age salads that
haven't been chopped up much ... followed by a mixture of cold tinned
rice pudding, tinned pears with evaporated milk topped with cornflakes.
Most of the above is washed down with naval rum, 4-packs of generically
bad supermarket beer and bottles of wine-lake overspill (99p per bottle).

The day ended on a high note: The Anchor Inn had Old Speckled Hen at 1.65/pint!