John, wrote: >> --- In [email protected], "Terry" <terryiow@> wrote: >>> Advice please!.... >>> Intend doing a circular tour from the Worc & Birmingham Canal to >>> Stratford-upon Avon in August.....is it best going down the Severn and up >>> the Avon or the other way round?.....bearing in mind it's best going >>> against the flow of water! > I've done the ring by down the Severn and up the Avon with no problems > whatever. If you wish to go against the flow then as there are many more > miles of Avon than Severn but (flooding apart) I don't think it makes a > haporth of difference.
I've gone up the Avon in conditions where going down it would have been stupid and reckless rather than just foolhardy. It took minutes to get through Bidford bridge.
