According to the guide we had five hours of cruising to make it to Bath. We decided we would leave about 9.00am which would give us the opportunity to stop a few times and view some suggested sites and still make Bath at a reasonable time. What we forgot to take into consideration was the … More Slow Float to Bath – 4th August 2019

Today was much more leisurely. We didn’t get cruising until 10.30amas both exhausted from the last two very long days. We had five hours of cruising with a few locks and swing bridges to go through. The purposes of the swing bridges are to usually connect farmers fields and access for the cows to the … More Making our way to Little Bath – 3rd August 2019

This follows on from our blog posting with regards to the Caen Flight. There are seven original wonders of the waterways which we have listed below. Between 2010 and now we have completed all of them. Recently, they seem to have replaced the Brindley Embankment with the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland but our belief is … More Original Seven Wonder of UK Canals – 2nd August 2019

We think this photo from our Pearson’s guidebook tells it all. This was our challenge for the day and this completed our set of the original seven wonders of the inland waterways in the UK. There will be an additional post tomorrow of what those seven wonders are. We had moored up at the top … More Caen Hill Flight – 2nd August 2019

Today was about getting off to a good start by being the first at the top of the locked Crofton Locks. We had a great three generation family pair up with us who were most entertaining. They had a 20 year old daughter who was training to be a physiotherapist but was also very keen … More Trying to Get Ahead of the Game – 1st August 2019

We had predicted that we would need to cruise for nine hours today to arrive at Lock 63 which is where the time restrictions begin. We arose at the ungodly hour of 6.00am and were on our way by 6.45am in favourable conditions. Our first unusual encounter for the early morning was with a bunch … More Battling the CRT Timetable – 31st July 2019

Today was a big tick for the bucket list as we went to Highclere Castle which is only eight kilometres from Newbury and where Downton Abbey was/is filmed. In the actual series, they portray the castle as being up in the Yorkshire region – not sure for this. They recently finished filming a Downton movie … More Downton Abbey/Highclere Castle – 30th July 2019

Just three hours of cruising this morning to get us into Newbury but not before we had a tussle with someone’s old T-shirt which found its way around our prop. This is the worst fouling we have experienced on the canals and took a while plus a lot of strength to remove it. What is … More Newbury – 29th July 2019

We left our quiet countryside mooring at about 9.00am for a day of 5-6 hours cruising on our way to Newbury. After being on the cut for an hour and a half we came up to an electric bridge that would not go up so it involved us calling the Canal and River Trust to … More Experiencing a Canal Shut Down – 28th July 2019

All good plans of Mice and Men go astray and that they did today. We had planned to do a reasonably long day so that we met our date of being in Newbury on the afternoon of the 29th July. What got us off on the wrong foot was starting up a great conversation for … More Kennet and Avon Bound – 27th July 2019