10th August 2015. Foxton to Market Harborough.

A lovely day with family at Foxton yesterday (including an excellent carvery lunch at the Foxton Locks Inn with good service, despite it being absolutely rammed with people).

Today we took a little detour to Market Harborough; a journey of just over 5 miles down an offshoot of the main canal which took around 3 hours. No locks but one swing-bridge and a number of oncoming craft;  hireboats just picked up from Market Harborough basin.

We found a mooring on the approach to the basin which ends the Market Harborough arm of the canal and set off on our bikes to explore the town and collect supplies.

 

Not such a pretty view on our mooring today - but being near the shops makes up for it!

 

All went well in town and we decided the shops merit a second look tomorrow so the bikes are locked up on the stern and we'll be off for more foraging in the morning. In our defence, this is the last town we will go through until Milton Keynes which is many days - possibly weeks - journey away. We shop while we can!

Our bikes ready for action again in the morning.