The clocks went forward last night so we were short of an hour's sleep! This was accentuated by the fact that we were quite late back from the theatre last night and then dallied about getting to bed.
As forecast, the weather today has been wet but the rain has never been very hard. It was not enough to deter us from our plan to visit the cathedral on the hill above the town. It took about half an hour to walk - there are no suitable bus routes.
On the way we spotted a sculpture depicting Alice and the White Rabbit. Lewis Carroll lived much of his later life in Guildford and is buried here.
It was a traditional service for Palm Sunday, including a procession around the cathedral (thankfully around the inside of the church as it was both windy and wet outside at the time! we also had the long Passion narrative gospel, sung to a setting by John Sanders. There was quite a substantial congregation.
Afterwards we walked back down the hill - rather easier than coming up! (The last part of the climb was a steep path and steps!) We stopped off to pick up some more milk and then Christine wanted to spend a £5 loyalty voucher for Debenhams - which she did by making a purchase of £9!
That's it for today - the rest was spent lazily on the boat, having lunch, doing very little and then preparing for roast beef dinner!
Our main challenge now is to re-plan the remainder of our trip. The Basingstoke is still reported as shut until 1st April which would leave us very little time to explore other than the first flight of locks and return.
So, dear reader, if you want to know what we decided (so would we!) you will just have to follow the next few blogs.
0 miles - 0 locks.
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