Day 7 - Waltham Abbey

Wednesday 6th May 2009

Having had a long day cruising yesterday, overnight we decided that rather than attempt to get to Hertford, we would stay at Waltham Abbey.

Much to Bev’s relief, she could catch up on her sleep (staying in bed until after 10:00).  With me up at just after 05:00, I had plenty of time to catch up on personal emails, sort out the couple of hundred photos that I had already taken and try and find out what there was to see around us.

Yesterday evening I had already taken a short walk to stock up on provisions so knew roughly where we were and that the town centre was only a few minutes walk.

Of course, having stocking up with plenty of bread, the first job of the day was to feed our neighbours.

Later in the day we walked to the town and visited Waltham Abbey Church (the reputed burial place of King Harold, killed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066).

Having seen all we wanted to, we picked up a couple of steaks from a local butcher and some bird feed (as they must be fed up with just having bread).

We were tempted to pop into the Welsh Harp, but decided there must have been something wrong with their spirit level when they built it, so just returned to the boat.

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