Snarestone and a little further.

Yesterday I took a walk around Snarestone, along the towpath first to reach the Tunnel (250yards) South portal

Snarestone tunnel South portal

Up the steps brings you into the car park of “The Globe”

Through the car park, cross the road and down the public footpath brings you back to the towpath, Snarestone tunnel has no towpath through it and it is one way traffic I suspect because of the bend halfway through it or it could be because of lack of headroom if two boats were passing side by side.

Bend in tunnel restricting width.

Snarestone only really has a “Main Street” with a couple of little side roads leading off, nothing remarkable or noteworthy and I only spotted the one Thatched property which was split into three cottages, there was a primary school and a mix of housing quite a few being new.

I pottered around for the rest of the day and in the afternoon I caught the fuel boat Auriga (Rick) and took 54 litres of diesel and 3 bags of smokeless coal, that should see me until I'm off the Ashby, I then had a chat with Sue who lives at the current terminus along with her husband on their narrowboat and looks after the Ashby Canal Association shop/office.

This morning I could not decide whether to move on or stay another night, phone and internet signals are both very poor, but it was quite cold and overcast, not ideal cruising weather, however at 11:30 I decided to move, so onwards through the tunnel, this pathetic attempt is the best of three pictures I took,

My lovely camera won’t co-operate when it’s totally in the dark, refusing to flash, I need to work out what the problem, anyway here is a better effort of me exiting through the North portal.