Barbeque Weather

Wednesday 25 June

The weather just gets better so this morning we got the bikes out and cycled around the battle site of Bosworth Fields (August 1485: Henry Tudor vs Richard 3rd. Since we last visited 11 years ago the visitor centre has been much improved thanks to Lottery funding etc and now reflects all that has happened since Richard 3rd's body was discovered under a car park in Leicester in August 2012.

 

 Richard 3rd Drinking Well



 

Henry VIII

Keith ready to do battle with the horse that drew boat blood!

We then cycled on up to St James church in the adjacent village of Sutton Cheyney. The story is that Richard 3rd heard Mass on the day before the battle and there is a large modern plaque erected to him by various Richard 3rd societies.

Someone has lots of friends

The cheapest diesel on the system is at Wheaton Aston on the Shropshire Union canal that we will be passing during our return leg. We couldn't get there on what is left in the tank so we pulled up at Trinity marina to take some on board. Whilst we there we spotted some boys with their toys in the marina all radio controlled.

There was one model speed boat out on the canal that was clocking up almost 30mph with its brushless electric motor revolving at a staggering 28,000rpm! Incredible.
We were able to moor at a particularly nice spot this evening so decided to have out first barbeque of the trip.

Keith doing the business

An unusual phenomena before the sunset