Locks galore today. We set off at 9.30am and straight away went into a lock. Over the next three miles we did six locks and one swing bridge followed by another nine locks in a mile and a half.

We got through the three locks at Solbury fairly early which was a good thing as we were aware that this is a gongoozlers favourite haunt. When starting off for the locks there were two fierce centurions standing guard who were feigning sleep. Even Toque knew not to try and tackle these two. Being a … More Leighton Buzzard – 6th July 2019

Our day started with an early morning cruise of an hour to Fenny Stratford. Gotta love these British village names. Not a particularly endearing town as it has been swallowed up by Milton Keynes and rather characterless. The purpose for our lay over was that it was only a two kilometre walk out to Bletchley … More The Imitation Games – 5th July 2019

Today was mostly about cruising and catching up some hours to get us back on schedule as we had slipped behind just slightly. The area we are going through is a suburban sprawl called Milton Keynes. Many of you may have heard of this place but a bit more about that shortly. Our first bit … More Cosgrove to Milton Keynes – 4th July 2019

Oooops, rather slow off the mark this morning. We didn’t awake until 10.30am!! The bedroom cabin can be made very dark indeed which we optimized on. Our plan was to wander down to the canal museum in Stoke Bruerne which we decided was still doable as we only had four hours of cruising to do … More Only Mad Dogs and Englishmen Go Out in the Midday Sun – 3rd July 2019

Considering we were wedged in between the M1 and rail line last night, we slept remarkably well. First order of the day after breakfast was to take Toque for a walk down to the bottom lock and check out the lay of the land. On our return it was time to water Marlene’s beautiful flowers … More Stoke Bruerne Bound – 2nd July 2019

A very special day today for we Canadians to be celebrated with poutine and maple syrup of which we have neither. Today is also the first day of us flying solo. Marlene and Wolfgang have jumped ship as they say and headed back to Germany this morning and left us on our own to look … More Happy Canada Day – 1st July 2019

We got up early this morning as we needed to get to the top of the Watford Locks before they opened at 10.00am. If you are too late you will end up at the bottom of the queue. Normally there are not restrictions on lock hours except not going through from sunset to sunrise. The … More Crick to Home Base – 30th June 2019

The Lock Keeper arrived just before 10.00am and unlocked the top and the bottom lock to start moving the boats. They decided to commence from the top to the bottom which was a bugger as we had to wait for about five boats to come down before we could go up. We got into the … More Foxton Locks to Crick – 29th June 2019

The challenge today, if you could call it that was to do another twelve locks and eleven miles. This would take us to the bottom of the Foxton Locks. These Canal we have been doing the last few days and up to the bottom of the locks is all new for us. We also went … More Making our way to Foxton Locks – 28th June 2019