We only have twelve locks between us and Brentford. This is where we will be swooping out into the Thames to head north for Teddington this weekend. However before this we needed new bolts for our propeller connection and so we had to make a phone call to the nearby boatyard. Matt came to sort us out ............
...... and four hours later we were on our way to Bull's Bridge.
The terrain rapidly changed as we headed further in to London. The boats were getting bigger......
.....so were the blocks of flats!
They were very imposing and pretty awesome to look at as we virtually passed beneath them. In fact tootling along in our boat alongside these made us feel somewhat vulnerable and this is still only the Grand Union Canal.
Even the bridges were darker as you can see from this photo I took of Chris silhouetted against the entrance of a low bridge.
The factories came along thick and fast and so did the smoke from this one! The chimneys loomed far above us again making us feel quite titchy!
We didin't reach today's detination in the end and
at the moment are moored up for the night at Bull's Bridge which is at the junction of the Regent's Canal and the Grand Union. We will be following the latter to Brentford tomorrow where we will be moored for a couple of days.
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