Back to MM Again.

Friday 28th June 2019 at Laughton Hills.
The route back on the train, using the ThamesLink service, worked like a dream. We caught the train from Earlswood at 9:43 and were back in Market Harborough by 12:10. The bus only runs every two hours so that gave us a full two hours for M to shop in the town while R had a coffee, before we caught the bus back to the marina.
What with the usual laundry that M took home to wash, combined with the "few bits" that she had acquired in Waitrose and Sainsbury's, we were quite heavily laden for the bus journey, much to the amusement of the driver! Luckily, the bus stop is twenty feet from the marina entrance so we did not have too far to carry everything.
R brought MM into the marina service bay for a pump out and then we were heading for the exit.

It was lovely cruising in the afternoon sunshine, we barely saw another boat.

It must be the mating season for damselflies, they are all flying around in pairs. R wondered, when they do that, who is driving? M is pleased with the geraniums this year; they seem to have recovered a bit since she dead-headed them before we went home. You can see a pair of damselflies on them.

Husbands Bosworth tunnel is 1,166 yards long. M remembered from our last visits that the walk over the top was lovely and so hopped off at the portal.

Clearly, not many people take this route!

The old horse path climbs quite steeply but was as lovely as M remembered.

At one point it crosses the track of a former railway. Sadly, yet another casualty of the Beeching era. Just imagine the lovely sight of a little steam engine chuffing under the bridge.

M, dawdling along looking at the countryside and taking photos, quite expected to see R waiting for her at the tunnel exit, but no - MM was only just emerging as she arrived. R said that MM did the whole tunnel just on tickover!

Our evening mooring was beautiful and very quiet - even if the side of the canal was so shallow that we couldn't get MM's stern any closer to the bank.

A lovely evening view from our bed as we retired. (That's a stick-on dragonfly, by the way!)

Today: 4 miles, 0 locks and 1.9 hours.
Trip: 121 miles, 42 locks and 65.0 hours.