Buying a Slice of Heaven – My Experience Of Buying A Narrowboat
March 2, 2025
If you’re planning to go boat shopping but are a novice, it’s always a good idea to enlist an “in-the-know” friend to accompany you!
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A Writers Experience Of A Family Narrowboat Adventure
February 15, 2025
In our increasingly always-on world, an escape to something different is perhaps more needed now than ever.Read more ›
Time Travelling Through Literature Of The Fens
April 28, 2024
Narrowboat blogger Peter Scott looks at the Fenland waterways through its literature. Aldereth bridge and GOBA moorings, Hereward’s resistance to William the Conqueror. The Littleport rioters & their fate. The old Wisbech & Upwell tramway.Read more ›
Go West young man!
March 15, 2024
Raal route guide blog with expert narrowboater and writer going west from March covering Peterborough, Ferry meadows, Elton mill to Water newton.Read more ›
Middle Level Then And Now August 1984 With John Revell Part 2
February 10, 2024
Part 2 of John Revells Middle Level narrowboating adventure. John makes the Salters Lode crossing at low water. He navigates the fourty foot river, river cam, sixteen foot and hundred foot New Bedford. He compares the then in August 1984 and the now for places to eat and stop he describes the characters he met back in 1984.Read more ›
Boating on the Middle Level in May 1984 Part 1 with John Revell
January 7, 2024
Discover John Revell’s adventure narrowboating the Middle Level waterways back in 1984. This is Part 1 of 3. John purchased his first boat at the Shropshire Union navigated the River Nene including meeting lock keepers, eating at some of the best waterside pubs and decribes the things that did not go according to plan. John met Charlie Fox and moved his boat to Foxes Marina. Read more ›
Was this the Very First Narrow Boat Holiday?
May 20, 2020
Have you ever dreamed of getting away from it all, on a narrowboat? Would you like to go on a slow adventure through rural England? Do you wonder what the canals looked like when the cargo-carrying boats were still working?…Read more ›
Boating the Cambridge Backs with Chris Howes
May 4, 2019
More than half a century ago, one of the founding fathers of the Inland Waterways Association, Robert Aickman wrote about the “Seven Wonders of the Waterways”. I’ve boated each of these Wonders and ticked them off my ‘to visit’ list. Although…Read more ›
Old Bedford river campaign to re-open.
March 16, 2019
On Thursday 14th March Pat Fox and Paula were invited to a luncheon at the Lamb & Flag in Welney where waterways campaigner John Revell was to make a presentation to the landlords. Following an excellent lunch John invited Gina…Read more ›
