As we’d reached the last day of our 14 night ANT licence, we only had one night in Tewkesbury. Of course I made straight for the Abbey to enjoy one of my favourite sculptures in the country. It’s called Touching Souls and depicts 4 children sitting in a circle with their feet touching. Their soles and their souls reaching out. It was created as a copy its Romanian artist Mico Kauffman, who sculpted the original for the United Methodist Church in Tewksbury, Massachusetts.
The entire high street and town centre is interesting to walk down, with a merry mix of independent shops in olde world buildings which encourage you to look beyond the modern day window displays. And even after we first stopped here in 2017, I still rate the Gloucester Old Spot sausage, from Halfords butchers the best, and we’ve done a lot of research. I also like this gate to the garden of the Tudor House Hotel on the high street.
Whilst I was out exploring (and buying sausage for tea) Eric was prepping the boat ready for our trip down the big River Severn
We left the Avon at its confluence with the River Severn,
and as the river is now subject to a tidal flow, from now on all the locks are manned. Not only is the river big, but so are the locks.
The scale of our surroundings certainly reminded us what a small cog we are in the grand scheme of things
We say this over and over again, we love the variety of waterways that we can cruise on, from some rather grotty backwaters of neglected canals, to picturesque rivers like the Avon and onto super highways like the Severn.
Going with the flow helped our journey time down to Gloucester. We made the 13 miles to Gloucester dock in about 4 hours.
Now, where shall we moor….
An exciting day