Earlier this month we were back in Cheshunt as we are in process to slowly move back to Central London for the autumn/winter time. We met up again with Anton, his boat in new glory, new lick of paint and the engine refurbished. He was about to go abroad and we helped out with looking after his boat, we also took her with us to Walthamstow Abbey.

It seems that every time we moor in Cheshunt we are blessed with rain. After a decent summer the rain started here. For the best part of our time in Cheshunt it rained, it was very damp inside, outside, everywhere. This is not easy on the body, humidity creeping in from every pore.

The sky had mercy with us and stopped temporarily during a full moon night and the light was magic.

In Waltham Town autumn from its misty side.

And a young swan, guess not cygnet any more, is looking for food in the canal. They come knocking on the boat sometimes begging for food, the golden rule is: don’t feed them. Not just for their health, but also for the boaters safety!

Anton did rebuild the engine for his boat.

Bilge before :

And after:

Engine electrics reconnected. Taking loads of pictures while taking apart is very helpful.

It’s August and we had to head back towards River Lee. Though before, we had a two week stop over in the middle of the country side. Pishiobury Park that was, where our friend Gerry came to boat & cat mind for a week whilst we travelled to Norway.

Our next journey was to the end of the River Stort Navigation, we had to go all the way up to Bishop’s Stortford. We had another amazing cruising day, summer was still going strong, but we had a bit an anti-climax when we arrived. The visitor moorings there are not particularly nice. After having spent time in the beautiful nature going back to a more urbanised environment wasn’t exactly great. But we had to stay there as my sister was about to visit us and had her hotel booked in Bishop’s Stortfod.

Here a few video clips from the cruise:

And here Natascha’s sister roaming around with her in the country side. She’s much younger than Nat and loved to come for a visit to crazy London. It was a suitable antidote to where she lives in Switzerland. And now, this….

Well, now this is the shopping destination of the moment…