Merry Christmas cruise
As I get out of the marina too rarely and am not a huge fan of Christmas celebrations anyway, I decided to go on a little Christmas cruise with my friend Carsten from Germany, who is similarly minded and came over upon the promise of good food and hot drinks on the boat. We set off from the marina near Southall down to Bulls Bridge and turned left in the direction of Brentford. Quite soon we reached Three Bridges, which is a little canal attraction. The canal goes under a road, but under the canal there is a deep railway cutting. Three Bridges - road, canal, railway The Hanwell lock flight down to the river Brent is in quite a nice setting, but the locks are not in a good shape. They are deep, hence the gates are big and hard to handle. At each lock at least one paddle was broken. On top of that the canal had a lot of rubbish in it and also lots of branches from cut back trees. All this stuff got stuck in the locks everywhere. We shared most of the locks with a single-hander