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We looked up from the car park
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The entrance to the hotel
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Looking away from the car park at the Mercure Bowden Hill Hotel in Gloucester, UK
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Another view of Bowden Hall
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The private dining bubbles
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Our room with our luggage
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Our hotel room 231 which was down a maze of hallways
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The view from our room was not spectacular
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We drove from the hotel to the and parked at the Gloucester Quays shopping center. This photos was to remind me where I needed to go up on the elevator to the car park at the end of the cruise
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Among the shops along the historic docks area
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Old warehouses made up much of the shopping
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If we were not expecting great meals on board, I would have purchased a Welsh Cake
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Looking towards the 11th century Gloucester Cathedral
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The Gloucester Docks were a vibrant place
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One of the many pubs
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At Gloucester's National Waterways Museum
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It was a beautiful day to set sale
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A restored warehouse
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One of the canal narrowboats at the docks
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A shorter narrowboat
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Peg heads up the ramp after lunch to walk to the Edward Elgar to board
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A view of the boat from the pedestrian bridge
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The porthole on the right was our cabin
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This would be our home for the next five nights
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I pose by the boat
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We get to mingle with some of our soon to be good friends
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Captain Lewis on the left greets the passengers as we get our keys and are taken to our cabins
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Peg organizes her purse
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I look out from behind the ensuite door
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This was my bed, below the port hole
