After a nice dinner at the Rowbarge Inn, we woke up earlish and went down the first lock with another boat from the same moorings. They were only going to Froud's Bridge marina so soon left us. By the time we had prepared the lock at Aldermaston nb Guelrose, also from last night's moorings, had caught us up and we ended up travelling with them for the rest of the day. She was a long boat with two families on board and an army of crew. This made for an enjoyable journey despite the rain and the locks. The river goes in and out of the canal here too, assisting Harold to get a bit of speed up on the straight bits! At four o'clock we reached Fobney where we moored on the way down and stopped there. Tomorrow we can nip through Reading and onto the Thames.
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Harold briefly stopped for us to walk Scooby. The river joins the canal again here.
On the way down there were dozens of swallows feeding but the rain kept them away today.
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