Is This The Real Thing?
Busy going nowhere as we avoid the Jubilee crush and find ourselves seven miles from home ten days later.
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Bringing the freshly blacked boat slowly home via Birmingham, birthday dinners, barbecues and bonfires.
Continue readingCruising For A Blacking
Travelling to Springwood Haven to have the boat’s hull blacked with BSS signoff and Archie training on the way.
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Archie finds his feet in pubs and clubs, on boats and trains and prepares for life as a boat dog.
Continue readingThe Long Way Round
A new plan for the weeks ahead and a visit from an engineer but no resolutions.
Continue readingFarewell Northampton And The Nene
A final trip up The Nene, a week “off” and the return, via Northampton, to canal world.
Continue readingPottering Aound Peterborough
An explosive return, a Country Park oasis, a very long lunch, a road train and a tour of Oundle
Continue readingOne Week Through Whittlesey
A classic British Bank Holiday weekend, meeting up in Ely, messing up the Denver crossing and escaping the Middle Levels.
Continue readingCruising The Cam
Aldreth alpacas, topless tanning at Pope’s Corner, into the hands of the Conservators and cows on tour in Cambridge
Continue readingOff Peak Return
Disappointed in Bedford we start back. A trip down Godmanchester’s memory lane and no room at The Ferry Boat Inn
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