Mar12 Trip - Droitwich to Worcester - Wednesday

Woke to yet another buitful day, not a cloud in the sky. Sue left us to catch the train back to her car at Alvechurch. A journey that took us a day and-a-half on the boat, but she will be back in her car in about an hour.

Cloudless sky - unbelievable weather for March

We left Droitwich a bit later than usual, thinking the second half of the Droitwich canals would be similar to the part we had cruised along yesterday. This was a mistake, the second part (Droitwich to the River Severn) is called the Droitwich Barge Canal and is a wide beam waterway, with locks to match.

Droitwich Barge Canal, before the locks.

The first part wasn't to bad, but once we started on the locks we really slowed down. Consequently we were a bit later getting to the River Severn than planned. Which meant our arrival in Worcester was very late in the afternoon.

We decided not to stop in the city centre, but went on to just before the Gregory's Mill locks. Not a very good choice there was a football ground close by with an evening match being played. Very noisey until just after 9 when the match finished.