Monday 7th May

Saw the boat moored ahead of us move into the basin so I went up to find out what was going on. The flood had started early and there were two narrowboats in the lock ready to go. I went back and we set off and the lock was almost ready for us when we got there. We got a new gas bottle and I also cancelled the booking that I'd made for the return trip in July. We were locked out on our own at about 10am.

The river was quite busy and we lost count of the number of boats that we saw. We cruised non stop and arrived at Cromwell lock at 4pm. Carried on through Nether lock and moored in Newark.

Went to eat in the Tynemill chain Fox and Crown, then on to the Mail Coach and the Castle and Falcon. Then tried the Castle, but that appeared to be shut, so we looked into Wetherspoons, but they didn't have any guest beers so we went back to the Fox and Crown.