The plan is to start the year with a trip to the Crick show Late May bank holiday 23-26th May 2025. This will take around 12 days from Burghfield so probably leave around the 9th May.
From Crick we will head down to Norton Junction and meet up with Maisie Grey again, then down to Gayton and the Nothampton branch to join the River Nene in Northhampton. Spend some time exploring the Nene Middle levels, the Ouse and the Cam before returning to Burghfield.
Due to stoppages on the Nene with the EA closing Barnwell Locks for over a month the trip was seriously delayed and many of the options to explore the tributarys of the Ouse have been dropped. Also water shortages on the South Oxford Canal mean the summit is closing from late July until there is "significant rainfall" so we are having to return via the Grand Union via London and the Thames.