Pudding in the Basin

 I couldn't resist a headline like that.  Tonight we have some fresh fruit and creme fraiche in a basin in the Basin.

 The trading boats have all arrived for this weekend’s floating market in the basin, and although we’re in one of their spots they’re cool about us staying until the morning.  Nice people.

As for the tourist bit, today we’ve done the Transport Museum -really excellent if you like old British made cars for example this one

and truly amazing early bicycles, tricycles etc (plus the Thrust record breaking jet cars), then the Holy Trinity Church next to the Cathedral -worth a visit to see their 15th century Doom painting (pre-dating Da Vinci) showing the Day of Judgement, with the dead climbing out of their coffins and loose women chained up and cast into the pit of hell. Cheery stuff.

then the Herbert gallery just over the road, to see the huge Diplodocus skeleton, and some art works - here's one we liked

Old ladies on a park bench

and in the same building a really good general museum of Coventry’s history right up to the 1960s, then the Cathedral for a sit down to recover while we gawp at the windows and the tapestry, then lastly Wetherspoons where we had a really nice pint of beer (and I’m quite picky) for £2.46!!  

Now you see why we’re a bit tired.  I would have taken photos, but my phone battery expired on me so these are courtesy of Kath.

Tomorrow after a breakfast in the basin cafe, we hope to get as far as the first mooring up the Ashby canal.  They’re a bit few and far between so fingers crossed there’ll be room.