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Escape from Milton Keynes

Escape from Milton Keynes

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We continued to head North along the Grand Union today, with a break not just for tea, but also for Paula to visit a thrift store. The goal for today was to escape Milton Keynes. Oh, I know, it presents a leafy enough face to the canal, but rising above the tree there are occasional glimpses of architectural atrocities make Barad-Dur look like an amusement park. Why does a factor need a fifty foot tall guard tower? Why is that…

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Turn, Turn, Turn

Turn, Turn, Turn

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The weather was not very good today, but we picked a gap in the drizzle to get down to the point just past the bridge nearest Bletchley Park where we could turn around. The was one lock, with a swing bridge across the middle of it, and a rise of only one foot, which Paula made short work of. There are not many places in the canal wide enough to turn a narrow boat around, and the one we were…

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