First full day of cruising and in beautiful, sunny, and scenic conditions. Just wanted to add in a bit of footage of the areas we are going through. We are not that far from Manchester, which dredges up images of black buildings, pollution and overcrowded housing which isn’t true anymore and certainly not in the … More Shroppie Canal to Middlewich Canal –  7th June 2022

There have been some interesting machinations occurring with regards to our planned route. Our goal back in 2016 was to go by narrowboat over, under and around the Pennines. We achieved under and around but not over due to damage caused by severe winter storms on the Rochdale Canal. This trip our plans are to … More Part 2 – 6th June 2022

Not very much to report here except that after having breakfast at Weatherspoon’s in Falkirk, we drove back to the marina and handed Yasmin back to them – in one piece! It was then a drive back down to the Scottish/English border to the Over Water marina where we had left the boat moored for … More Falkirk back to Base – 4th June 2022

As readers of the blog from a few days ago may be aware, Kirkintillock (or Kirky to the locals) is the home of the Firth and Clyde’s resident squadron of killer swans. We reported back a few days how they awoke us very early in the morning with their incessant pecking on the narrow boats … More Kirky to Falkirk – 3rd  June 2022 – Attack of the killer swans – part 2

We haven’t explained that the planning of our travel days work around the Scottish Waterways and Volunteers providing us with passage under road bridges and locks. Today we can only travel as far back as Kirkintilloch as after that there are the two road bridges that the Scottish Waterways has to man. Hence, our day … More Return Journey to Kirky – 2nd June 2022

We had all done our own separate research about what to see and do in Glasgow and we all came up with the same answers – not a lot! If you google the top 10 things to do in Glasgow, you will find eight of them are outside of the city. We even sought the … More Hop On – Hop Off, Glasgow – 1st June 2022

A very rude awakening this morning at the ungodly hour of 6.00am courtesy of one vengeful swan family. Mum, dad and five ankle biters decided they didn’t want us around their territory any longer so began banging their beaks on the side of the hull where our bedrooms are. It isn’t that unusual, as they … More Kirky To Glasgow – 31st May 2022

A day of relatively easy cruising from Falkirk to Kirkintilloch – we dare you try and pronounce the name rather than skimming over the top of it. We had four locks to go through of which all were manned by volunteers. We had a widebeam hire narrowboat doing the locks with us. It had a … More To Glasgow We Do Go – 30th May 2022

Just had to include another couple of photos of the Kelpies from last night. Wolfgang took these photos with his much superior camera. This one was taken as the sun was setting. Part of the night display where they were lit with red lights. This picture is quite confusing as it shows four horses heads … More Farewell to the Kelpies – 29th May 2022