Milos and Sylvie

Monday 16th April, 2012.
We both slept well and awoke to another golden morning although frost still lingered on the grass.
Milos and Sylvie arrived about 10:00am for a day's initiation into the mysteries of English narrowboating. He is Czech and she is French, so the idea of English narrowboats was a mystery to them!
We had tea and cake, they had a quick tour of the boat and a brief history of the narrowboating tradition - and we were off.
We sailed down to the New Inn at Send where we moored up with some difficulty two feet from the side as the edge at this point is a river bank, not a straight canal side.  We had lunch, which included an excellent tarte aux abricots provided by Sylvie.  She and Milos very kindly also brougth a bunch of anemones, one of M's favourite flowers.
Both Milos and Sylvie took turns on the tiller and helped at the locks.  They also spent some time walking on the towpath, despite its rather muddy condition due to all the recent rain.  At the winding point just past the flood gates, we turned around and headed back to Pyrford.
We all agreed it had been a great day and went for a glass of wine at The Anchor pub!
Hours 138.9 - Miles - 8 - Locks 4