Packwood House

More boating/canal photos... we walked a lot of it, too!  

And we worked the locks on our own.

Same lock, now full of water.

Walked a few miles to Packwood House.  A showcase home of a man who's first name was Baron.  Kind of a sneaky way to pretend you have a title.

yep... a rainy day!

Warwick, at last!

Early on, from 7 miles away, we took a taxi and enjoyed the Warwick Castle.

Then we crossed roads on aquaducts.

No steering... Aquaducts are just big enough...

Outside of Stratford...

And at Shakepeare's Mother's home/farm, learning about milking the cows.

Oh, and there are geocaches, too. Not too easy...

Luckily Mick came by and helped me gracefully extract myself from the brambles.

We took the bus to Stratford from here.

And this was an ingenious cache container!

And then there was England!

What's this?  We hired a narrowboat, and chugged around at 2-3 mph for 2 weeks.  Yes, we laughed as we saw signs for Warwick each day.  Sometimes 7 miles to Warwick, and other times 5 miles.  Seems we could get farther away.  Eventually we gave in and chugged right into Warwick.  

Here are the captains, self-proclaimed, in the boat.  No, they were not being artistic... everyone else was working on their creativity at the table.

Emerging from a short tunnel.  You can see all the way through... as opposed to the 2-1/2 mile tunnel we went through in both directions.  DARK!

Getting ready to fill one of the 160 locks we went through.

And a lovely push button do-it-yourself-stop-traffic drawbridge.  

A flight of locks!  See them all lined up ahead?  

Our captain and favorite first-mate!

Yes, there was room for all 7 of us on the boat, and around the table at each pub stop.

Time to feed the swan's babies.  Mama happy, everyone happy!

This is the super long tunnel...about 45 minutes to get through it.

Amazing weather!  Only 3 mornings of a little drizzle out of 14 days is a real success!