In the main, we had a nice stay at the Grove Lock Marina site, which is attractive and well laid out, with great views of the narrow boats for the CL part of the site. BUT a word of caution about dogs, or more particularly, dog owners and what seems to be the site's relaxed attitude to these. There are no signs up about dogs remaining on leashes, or dog mess bins. Consequently, we had to move dog mess left quite near our caravan, left by a dog and its owner, one of the narrow boaters, who just wasn't watching the dog at all while it ran free about the caravan site. There were children playing nearby and by the time we had identified who the two owners were, they were too far away to call. So disgusting as this was for us, we felt we needed to remove the mess, for the sake of other holiday makers. Obviously, people with boats bring dogs, and exercise those dogs, who need to meet calls of nature but a few signs and bins around seems to us to be a necessity to make life more pleasant for ALL holidày makers. This spoilt our break, and as the caretaker was busy and his partner eating her breakfast when we took the key back, we didn't get chance to raise it. But it's a no brainer really, as they don't have signs and bins they clearly don't care about this aspect and that's a real shame because it means we, for one, won't return.
