THE FLASHING GNOMES AND ANOTHER SORAYA

Many of the locks have lock gardens which are well looked after and garden gnomes often play a large part. There were several gnomes in this garden together with animals, large birds, wheelbarrows, planters etc. I was particularly amused by this pair showing off to each other, or perhaps to anyone going by.

The flashing gnomes

We were moored up in another lock and a gentleman came up to us and said he had a boat which was also called Soraya moored about 5 km up the canal. Sure enough a while later we passed Soraya, very different from ours.

Soraya the Second