Christmas Day

We travelled up from Wadebridge on Christmas morning, leaving as soon as we could - well, just after 8:30 seemed early enough after the efforts of the past few days. The motorway was quite clear to begin with but never became as busy as most days.

The promised rain held off, indeed the sun shone for most of the time. We arrived, as expected, just after mid day, at Andrew's house in Devizes.

After refreshment we went for a short walk along the canal, down to the top of the main Caen Hill flight. There seemed to be fewer boats moored than we have seen here before over winter. The main stretch is not marked as Winter Moorings as in previous years. CaRT have been experimenting with Roving Permits this year which give live-aboard boaters a little more freedom as they can move around yet still stay at some places for more than the usual 14 day limit.

Back to the house and soon time to finish preparations for our Christmas dinner - quite a lot of it we brought with us so that there was not much more than veg prep before putting everything on to cook either in the oven, on the hob or in the steamer!

After we had eaten, not much else happened!