Tuesday 2nd July Our aim was to move the boat as quickly as possible down to Oxford and then onto the River Thames on Thursday and Friday as Dick still gets American holidays off and not UK ones, so he had July 4th off and was taking July 5th as a holiday. In the mean time, he was still working from the boat, therefore we also needed to move around his meeting schedules. We left Thrupp the next morning by 10AM after Dick had already worked a few hours. The aim was to get into north Oxford by lunchtime. However, what we didn't realize was that much of the canal moorings in the three miles north of Oxford are Agenda 21 residential moorings and you do have to go further into Oxford for a temporary mooring. We eventually found a mooring in Wolvercote so Dick could work the rest of the day, but it was a long way from any facilities to empty the rubbish and the toilet. I walked further along the canal path whilst Dick was working and found a better 2 day mooring closer into Oxford...
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