I CAN WELL understand those boating visitors being impressed by all the activities at Mercia Marina that Paula Drew found, James Booth writes.
Beetroot Tree
I can tell her that, from how she describes the eatery she and her partner visited, it was the Beetroot Tree, as they go in for peculiar names around there!
I am a regular visitor to my daughter and her husband who live in a narrowboat there, but who do have a complaint, and that is as they each often come back late from their work they complain it is near impossible to find a parking space. They have no alternative they tell me than having to park where what I gather is the public spaces outside the marina gates, though they tell things are not too bad in winter when those who don't live on boats rarely visit.
But come the summer when these people come to their boats and stay overnight the situation for parking is bad as there just are not enough spaces available, even though they have double parking in some places.
Disabled parking permit
I hold a blue disabled parking permit but when I visit in the evenings I could find just the one disabled space next to the entrance gate that is so far from their boat that it is useless for me and obviously would be for others. There are two such spaces there but one was cluttered with something or other. So as there was no other parking left we had to juggle cars last summer that was a pain.
I don't want to digress from what Mercia offers its people and visitors but with Spring approaching and then summer there should be more parking for its boating people.