What a pretty canal! We are almost at the top as I write and it must be one of the most picturescue canals in the country as well as being the most rural. Mind you it didn't stop some idiot not stopping when I was half way through a bridge and pushing me into the arch. Minor damage in the end but totally unnecessary. A minor panic last night when we added up the amount of scoff we have on board compared to the likelihood of finding shops. Luckily my trusty folding bike came into play and I cycled twenty miles up the worlds steepest hill into Market Bosworth to find a shop (slight exaggeration there). Yesterday we had a great walk around a certain battlefield site - see photos below:
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| I bet no one looking at this can work out what happened here in 1485. In fact the area was a marsh and to the left was a dastardly usurper (Henry Tudor) and to the right a dastardly hunchback (Richard the 3rd). Yup this was the actual site of the battle of Bosworth and Richard got his comeuppance withing a few hundred yards of the canal and as we all know ended up in a car park in Leicester for his pains. Also the actual battlefield site was thought to be in a different place until archeological discoveries of cannon balls and other detritus was discovered here. | | |
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| How to recover after a long walk through history. |
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