Date - 2 January 08 Day - Wednesday Start - 0820 Napton Flight End - 1600 Bridge 125 S Oxford
Last night we walked back down to the Folly for a drink with Guy, Connie, Terry and Maurice manly to say goodby to Maurice as he will soon be on his way back to Australia. While we were there I rang John to find our where that had got to that night only to receive the reply that they were at Fenny already hence the early start this morning to go for lunch with them. We saw very few boats on the move but needles to say the first one we met was in a blind bridge hole. After we cleared Marston Dole locks Diana went below to make a cup of tea and found the bathroom and corridor flooded, The toilet flushing valve hadn't closed completely and the bowel had overflowed onto the floor, thankgoodness it was only clean water. We arrived at Fenny just before 12 and after winding we both filled with water before going into The Wharf about quarter past. I asked the young lady for a table for 6 only to be told that the kitchen was not opening until 1pm so we sat down with a drink and went through the menu. At 1 o'clock we persuaded her to take our order and after more prompting at 1 30 we were finally shown to our table, it was gone 1 40 pm before the food showed up. The Wharf is running an offer this month, two meals for the price of one. when our bill arrived it had all 6 meals listed and totalled up so we had to send that back and request a corrected one, the girl was very apologetic but told us she didn't do the bills and didn't know. On top of all this the restaurant could have done with a good clean, there were food scraps on the chairs and the table was not particularly clean, the floor was worse and there was even a fag end by our table. The food was OK with good size portions and with the 2 for 1 discount good value, but not an enjoyable experience. We upped sticks and left Fenny at 1420 hrs, by now it was bright but quite cool with a freshening wind. We continued on until 4 pm when we moored for the night just north of bridge 125 -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit this site and help save our waterways http://www.savethewaterways.org.uk/
