hilldweller
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We 're thinking of hiring one but hell it's expensive.
Canal du Midi - great.
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We 're thinking of hiring one but hell it's expensive.
made us think we'd like to take a trip on a narrowboat.
Lived on one as a lad that my father converted from a coal-carrying butty just after WWII, on the Thames, at Sandford. I owned one years later on the South Oxford Canal for 22 years. Sold it when it got too expensive to maintain and I got too stiff in the a3rse to get down the engine hole. Four years on, I still miss it and the friends I made. Narrowboaters are a community, just as or even more so than motorhomers. My MH does compensate a
little, but I still regret getting rid..
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I thought that was just good manners for anyone. Last year, when we were in Worcester, we happened to be by The Commandery when a boat came up to use the lock so I operated the gate so that the people didn't have to get off.used to help one another at locks,
I thought that was just good manners for anyone. Last year, when we were in Worcester, we happened to be by The Commandery when a boat came up to use the lock so I operated the gate so that the people didn't have to get off.
Agree, often walk along the canal and those days seem to have gone.Once upon a time Graham but sadly no longer in my extensive experience.
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Week or so before we picked Mo up. Love the slow pace much more than driving but their a bugger to get over the channel lol.
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Obviously a nice little "ménage à trois"Broken Link Removed
Obviously a nice little "ménage à trois"
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The only really enjoyable part of CANAL boating is when you moor up near a country pub and enjoy a lovely meal... Travelling along it means the same scenery for hours and hours on end... Nice little ducks though ..
No thanks, I want my lift over the Channel to be a damn sight bigger than that.
As well as the countryside I love the old industrial areas that the canals go through.Then you must go boating with your eyes shut Joy, the beauty of any kind of boating is the journey and the arriving and leaving. I have rarely seen road trip scenery to match that of river-bank canal side or coastal.......
This may well be a picture of Terry & Monica Darlington whom along with their beloved Whippet Jim, crossed the channel in their narrowboat Phyllis May. They had some terrific adventures and wrote a best selling book about their exploits 'Narrow Dog to Carcassonne' http://www.narrowdog.com/index.html
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Non monsiuer il est Stoke Bruerne
What a lovely memory Vic... Thanks for sharing.
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