Lucy's Travel Adventures

Narrowboat News - Edition 6

Narrowboat News - Edition 6

Very soggy today. Started with drizzle and then it turned into thunder showers - not too cold. The sluices, drains and spillways that keep the canal at it’s prescribed level...

Narrowboat News - Edition 6

Very soggy today. Started with drizzle and then it turned into thunder showers - not too cold. The sluices, drains and spillways that keep the canal at it’s prescribed level...

Narrowboat News - Edition 5

Narrowboat News - Edition 5

We’ve transited Nuneaton again, there are an impressively large number of allotments there, it seems like miles of them along the canal. Allotments are owned by the local authority (or...

Narrowboat News - Edition 5

We’ve transited Nuneaton again, there are an impressively large number of allotments there, it seems like miles of them along the canal. Allotments are owned by the local authority (or...

Narrowboat News - Edition 4

Narrowboat News - Edition 4

Dear Everyone,Editorial comment from my sister Pip, who knows her UK flora - May blossom is not Blackthorn but Hawthorn which does flower in May, hence ' don't cast a...

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Narrowboat News - Edition 4

Dear Everyone,Editorial comment from my sister Pip, who knows her UK flora - May blossom is not Blackthorn but Hawthorn which does flower in May, hence ' don't cast a...

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Narrowboat News - Edition 3

Narrowboat News - Edition 3

Dear Everyone,Having run the gauntlet of Nuneaton, not too unpleasant but the towpath was heavily studded with large-dog excrement, which says a lot about the folks who frequent the bank....

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Narrowboat News - Edition 3

Dear Everyone,Having run the gauntlet of Nuneaton, not too unpleasant but the towpath was heavily studded with large-dog excrement, which says a lot about the folks who frequent the bank....

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Narrowboat News - Edition 2

Narrowboat News - Edition 2

Dear Everyone!We are now a couple of delightful days further south, roughly speaking. Added to the fact that the canals (especially those designed by James Brindley - whose canals wherever...

Narrowboat News - Edition 2

Dear Everyone!We are now a couple of delightful days further south, roughly speaking. Added to the fact that the canals (especially those designed by James Brindley - whose canals wherever...

Narrowboat News - Edition 1

Narrowboat News - Edition 1

I am slumming it tonight, sat aboard Ali with the diesel stove alight, but the G&T has no ice and no slice! Never mind, it was an easy move aboard...

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Narrowboat News - Edition 1

I am slumming it tonight, sat aboard Ali with the diesel stove alight, but the G&T has no ice and no slice! Never mind, it was an easy move aboard...

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