1st January 2016 Coventry Canal

To get in our 10 000 steps I try to find different places to walk. At present it’s a little muddy going over fields and footpaths so I’m looking for road walking (not my favourite) or places where it will be less wet. Living in canal country as we do at the moment we are looking for circular walks involving tow paths. Today’s excursion took us into Coventry (with the ulterior motive of picking Maddison up from a friend’s house). Parking at Ikea we walked across town to the Canal Basin.
   


From here we wandered along the tow path for 4 of the bridges before we needed to turn back. Over the top of some bridges there is a piece of art work depicting the journey we might have made given sufficient time.
 Viewed from one direction it looks somewhat like a snake with an open mouth, this end is actually the canal basin we started at.
Some of the art work along our way was reworked by spray can artists, which fitted in with the photos I didn’t take of the rubbish along our path.

         
We walked back into Coventry via the road that crosses bridge 4 and found our way via Sandwell Park which had free exercise equipment for people to use (we didn’t).