St Mary's Mill Lock.
Leicester Castle Green Moorings.
Left moorings at bottom of Gee's Lock at 8.45. First it started to drizzle then to rain hard. We donned full waterprorf trousers, jackets and silly but sensible hats.
The canal remained remarkably rural looking much of the time.
At Freeman's lock Rachel's lock handle slipped off in the wet and she slipped over landing on her back.
There was only one short term boat on Castle Green moorings and we moored there at 11.15. We'd got so wet and it continued to rain for most of the rest of the day so we decided to stay put. Small purchases from John Lewis and Tescos. We also visited the Newarke Museum which is very close to the moorings.
Leicester has a reputation of being somewhere boaters don't want to linger in. The "straight mile" leading up to the Castle Green moorings (which are on the non tow part side) has plenty of tow part mooring. Since De Montford University has pretty much taken over this area it didn't feel unsafe to me.
4 miles and 4 locks = 8 lock miles.
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