We travelled past Banbury today in generally rainy weather. There were some really pretty sections of canal but also some not-so-pretty sections of decrepit boats that have either been abandoned or are permanent housing. Some what unkindly we thought of some of these as canal-side slums. We even saw evidence of slum-lords at work. Along some sections it was evident that farmers had sold/leased a small section of canal front land to permanent boat dwellers.

The key milestone of the day was our turn around. We did not have enough time to complete the loop of the Oxford canal so we had to pick a point at which to start the return journey. Today we found a turn around point and commenced our return journey. The turn around points are called a winding point, we looked this name up on Wikipedia but did not really get an explanation of the origin of this term.

We stopped for the night before getting back to Banbury.