Late night football leads to late blog entry.

We were, unsurprisingly, the first boat into the Avon Lock this morning and it wasn’t long before we were passing under Mythe Bridge on our way to Worcester.

Although it is a longish stretch on a fairly wide and straight river there is quite a bit to see on the Severn.  We spotted several herons and set ourselves a small challenge for the day.

Romy phoned ahead, with plenty of time to spare, to let the lock keeper know of our arrival.  He had everything prepared but it took us a while to realise that, although the gates we could see were closed, there was another chamber with open gates just round the corner!  In our defence the bright sunshine made it nearly impossible to see the green arrow light. The Diglis lock was somewhat bigger than any of those we had encountered so far but we rose very sedately to the higher level.

As we passed the cathedral we were surprised to see what looked to be a pitched battle between swans and gulls.

We were a bit horrified to find, as we approached our planned mooring, that there was a very noisy fairground on the racecourse.

There were also several boats at the mooring and only one good spot with mooring rings left.  Fortunately the fair packed up at 20:30 and we had a very peaceful night.

Also seen en route: