Day 7 ...20.05.13 ... Berkhamsted

Cloudy today but no rain and we had a good mooch around Berkhamsted which is a lovely old market town. We had looked at the ruined castle last year where William had been offered the throne of England and so revisited a couple of antique places which had caught our eye. 

One of the amusing happenings over the last day has been a male swan which, unfortunately, can see its reflection in the paintwork on the side of the boat and has spent most of the time we have been here pecking at it.  Mum has four cygnets and is not interested in the reflections at all.  Dad started at about 5 this morning when it got light!! If we were here any longer it would be roast swan for tea!!!

I had not realised the connection with the Duke of Bridgewater who owned a lot of the land around here and is one of the main creators of the Grand Union Canal in the late 1700s.

........and finally the sign for the Port of Berkhamsted !!!!