The second half of the Grand Union main line - down and up again
By now I have come down from the Grand Union summit at Tring, cruised for a long time at the bottom (mainly around Milton Keynes forever) and have come up again to another little summit, just before reaching Braunston, the end of the Southern Grand Union. I have finally reached the point where I turned off to new places I have not travelled to before. So this feels like I should write another post about the rest of the journey on the Grand Union. At the summit in Tring I had some work done on my boat by the very helpful Darren at Cow Roast. My plans to open a training centre for boat handling courses (RYA Inland Waterways Helmsman courses) on my boat were abruptly stopped in March, when the lockdown happened. I was close to launch at the time, but had to have some minor safety improvements done on the boat that I couldn’t do myself. Finally now in June I was able to find an engineer to do the work. Everything is so much easier (and cheaper) outside of London, where demand outstrips sup