Over the rainbow…

• On our travels

Last Thursday we took Brandy Pad out for a couple of nights. We were fortunate to have very pleasant weather and travelled up through the three top locks on the Droitwich Canal, then turned right to head towards Worcester. We moored up after a couple of hours at a favourite location we have stopped at previously.

A church and chocolate-box house

I have posted a photo of this scene before, but in the winter sunshine, it looked just as pretty.

The evening was clear and many stars were easily visible. We saw the ISS passing overhead, lit up like a huge, travelling star in the sky. It was easy to imagine some shepherds leaving their flocks to follow it had it been around a couple of thousand years ago.

The next day we did a Geocache which took us to visit the wonderful, old church in the picture. A wooden church is thought to have been on the site in the 1200s and was replaced with this stone building in the 15th century.

A double rainbow at Droitwich lock 1

On Saturday it was time to turn around and head home. Just as I was descending the first lock, I spotted this and was able to grab a picture just before I got too far down. Interestingly, the image betrays the limits of a camera’s ability to catch (and then display) all the colours that are visible to the human eye. Not all the colours of the rainbow are visible in the image.

It was a very windy day, which made lining up to get through the entrance into the marina very challenging. I am afraid we did rather bounce off the sides on the way in. Once we made it, we found ourselves travelling sideways down the marina. It was impossible to get the bow round into the wind, even with our bow-thruster going flat out. We eventually managed to get onto our landing stage successfully, but had to go in bow first, when we normally moor up stern first.

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