Up at 8 and went to see the lock keeper. Everything is okay now and Upper Lode lock on the Severn is open again. A Napton hire boat was keen to go after filling with water alongside us. So we decided to lock down with them even though they were going the other way.
We turned to go down the Severn to Gloucester. At Lower Lode lock the gates shut behind us but then reopened. The two narrowboats that had been moored below Tewkesbury lock had caught up with us. One of the women on board was not impressed to be told by the lock keeper that the river level was in the red.
After getting out of the lock they soon overtook us. Later when I phoned Gloucester lock from the upper parting he said that he was holding the other two boats in the lock until we got there.
Once in the docks we moored on one of the short pontoons. Went to the Pig Inn The City but this has closed permanently. So we went instead to eat at the Dick Whittington which had 4 beers from the Forest brewery in Mitcheldean. Then we tried the Fountain where we noted that they had a more interesting menu.
In the afternoon we set off to get to Saul but when we got to Hempstead bridge the keeper told us that it was too windy for him to open it! After waiting for a while he told us that he would open it at 530. However that would have been too late for us to get to Saul as we would not be able to get through Parkend bridge before 7pm. So we turned around and went to moor on the visitors moorings south of Llanthony bridge.
In the evening we went to the Fountain to try some of their interesting menu choices. We both had Sussex smokies as a starter. Then we went to the New Inn which had karaoke. Then we popped in the Cross Keys but that was noisy and only had one beer. So we went to the Dick Whittington again to try some more Forest beers.
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