From Purton to Slimbridge

This has been the first day for ages that we haven't needed an ark to get about in! So after cooking lunch for Vicki and baby Holly we headed off to Purton along the very narrow lane to wear the canal travels alongside the river Severn. We headed over the plimsol bridge after waiting for a bridge to come down. We just got three quaters of a way when a voice over a microphone asked us walkers to hurry up. He got impatient and said 'will the walkers get off the bridge as I have to take it up again!' Moody swing bridge man. Anyway Vicki and I walked along the canal with views across the Severn to the forest of Deane and distant Herefordshire. We walked a long way with Holly who would cycle for a mile or so and then arrive back. We eventually had to negiotiate some hissing swans and Holly as usual stopped for every dog along the way including one called Fudge who lived on a house boat. At the bike cafe at Slimbridge we sat on the side of the canal as Holly enjoyed her ice cream and drink before walking back and having a jacket potatoe and watching the soaps!