Friday 5th April 2013 Blaby to Aylestone Meadows. 5mls

22 walkers organised themselves to drive to Blaby parking on the industrial estate which gives

Great Central Railway walk

easy access to the old Central Railway walk - this stretches all the way to the centre of Leicester. On this occasion we left the Central Railway path at Packhorse Bridge near Aylestone Meadows to cross over the canal.

As always the cameras honed in on candidates for hat of the day -  two hand knitted, very colourful and warming  hats were spotted.

Outside the Kings Lock Tearooms

 After joining the Grand Union Canal towpath on the return journey to Blaby we arrived at  the Kings Lock tea rooms. It is well known that the tea rooms serve a very decent slice of cake in  various flavours so a tea /coffee break was quickly called for and unanimously agreed.

Canal boat leaving Kings Lock

Whilst having a well earned break we were surprised when two of our other regular  walkers joined us. Having set out late and missing the meet at the village hall, by sheer fluke,  they had chosen to walk the same route as the rest the group! Leaving the tea rooms we now numbered 24. With the sun shining and getting warmer all the time the topic of conversation turned to 'could spring have arrived at last'. The big difference was that the wind from the north east which had helped to keep temperatures down to low single figures in the day and low -0 temperatures at night seemed to have disappeared.  Anyway , everybody agreed - it is getting warmer at last!                                                                                                                       

on the return walk

A brilliant walk -  everybody enjoyed it and looking forward to next Friday.

Please note a picture of the buzzard spotted on last week's Willoughby walk has been included in the blog posted last week.