We spent most of the day on Merlot, catching up with the blog and e mails. Later we walked back to Camden for some more street food Yum Yum. Yes, you guessed it we popped into the elusive pub we visited yesterday for a quick drink whilst waiting for the torrential rain to ease, then back to Merlot. No TV so radio it was.
Thursday 21st July
This morning trev had a walk to Paddington Basin to see if there were any free moorings and low and behold there were at least 4. We very quickly (the moorings get taken up very quickly) untied and moved towards the basin stopping at the water point on the way filling up with water. We found a spot. Its a bit strange as the basin is surrounded by high rise office blocks and some sort of hospital on the other side. Trev tried to get a signal for sky but we found the buildings put paid to that idea.
We decided to have a walk to find some shopping area near by and go to the post office to see if our crayfish nets had arrived. Yea two crayfish nets.....cant wait to put them down but need some bait first.
As we left the basin we came across a father (the father reminded me of my dad) and daughter showing and flying a range of birds of prey - in the middle of all these tall buildings, strange but interesting.
After doing some shopping we walked to Edgeware Road and stopped for a drink in a Weatherspoons confident Trev could get a decent pint...........Oh dear, not to be, the first tasted like nothing Trev had tasted so on taking it back he tried another........ this one tasted like vinegar so back it went and Trev settled for a cider. Well, I have never tasted anything so disgusting - a bit like TCP. Trev seemed ok with it so all was well after all. What a carry on we have with finding the right pint !!!!!!!!!!
Friday 22nd July
Trev decided to buy a aerial as a fellow boater said with digital TV a regular aerial works accessing lots of channels. No sky but at least now we can watch a bit of TV when not out and about.
Trev went off to Maplins and returned with a aerial which is doing what it says on the box. so TV is back on the agenda Lol......
Wow we have just seen a little steel bridge being lifted and lowered electronically. The reason I say wow is this bridge is not just raised as normal but rolled up into a ball then unrolled back into a bridge. I took these pics and hope they do justice to how impressive it was.
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