LEICESTER CITY

I woke this morning in a cool cabin with Pentargon tied at a pontoon on the River Soar just ten minutes walk from St.Peter's Square the centre of retail therapy for the City of Leicester having bid goodbye to the Old Union Canal at Freeman's Lock which I gauged to be MILE00 and 35.5 miles from Norton Junction.

My progress since March 14th has been measured by Milestones.  Elsewhere I say I wanted to register the exact position of all the milestones on Leicester Arm of the Grand Union and largely the exercise succeeded. But right at the end I totally missed 3, 2 and 1 either because they were buried in weeds or had been dug up.  The photos of M5 illustrate lack of towpath maintenance  ...

Now on the Soar I will be going metric because I will be using the Open-Plan App. The river Soar is introduced gradually to the canal with the first weir appearing at Aylestone Lock 39. From Saint Mary's Lock we are on the Soar with another adjacent weir and at Freeman's Meadow there is a real weir beside Leicester's home ground.  The amount of water falling over the weir right now is negligible. It is 2km from Freeman's to a safe mooring at Friar's Walk with floating pontoons for maybe five boats at a push and water and mains electricity for them as needs it.