Today it was back to fields, trees and dog walkers on the tow path. It was a couple of hours before there was anywhere with a shop. Shane started filling up with water while I headed in to the village. His map had shown two shops but the road sign directed me to the High Street and there seemed quite a lot of cars. I saw a petrol station and wondered if that was the draw for the cars and also perhaps that was the other shop. Knowle High Street was full of independent shops: a large butcher, artisan baker, barber, solicitor, a bridal shop, travel agents, pubs, restaurants, deli, cafes and a zero waste shop. I had to peep in there and found fruit and vegetables, not wrapped in plastic, and freezers with tasty looking pastries and an array of ready to cook fishcakes in 8 varieties. I decided that would be an easy meal and they would defrost by teatime and decided on Thai and smoked haddock with spinachand chesy sauce. I picked up some bread and other ready to eat savouries, sorry I couldn’t sample a wider range.