20th August 2015. Warwick.

A lovely day today :)
We made our way through the outskirts of Warwick to the Saltisford Canal Arm - a short offshoot of restored canal run by a small local charitable trust. The turning point (winding hole in boating lingo) is half way up the arm and our mooring is right up the end. After a lot of faffing about involving bargepoles and ropes we managed to turn round and reverse our awkward old boat backwards along the already moored boats to the space we had been allocated. Narrow boats have no steerage when going backwards and Harold is particularly clumsy in the water, but we got the hang of it eventually and moored breasted up to Windrush.

Harold moored 'breasted up' to Windrush.

In the afternoon we set off on foot with Scooby to explore Warwick. We found the Church of St Mary's which allowed Scooby in, so he came round with us and managed not to pee on anything. The church was lovely and had a particularly impressive chapel where Robert Earl of Leicester (he who unsuccessfully wooed Queen Elizabeth the 1st) is buried with a number of the very influential Earls of Warwick in the previous couple of centuries.



St Mary's the dog friendly church!

We found Warwick Castle which doesn't even allow dogs into the grounds even though he is sooooo well behaved....

 

As near to the castle as we could get with our very well behaved dog....

..... so we retired to an Olde Worlde Tea Shoppe for a cream tea instead.



After general exploring (and purchasing of a fold up stool so Jo can see over the top boxes to steer - £4! a bargain) we returned to the boat for a rest but with plans to go back tomorrow.

In the evening Robin took Scooby for a bike ride and he ended up running a circuit of Warwick racecourse - 1 and 3/4 miles!

Two furlongs to go!