Narrowboat

Having turned around the evening before, we are now heading back up the Grand Union. A sunny morning, we set off at 9.30am and start off going through Fishery Lock, alone as there are no boats about. In the morning we do meet a few boats oncoming, but continue to go up singly, not meeting [...]

Thursday 13th September 2007: Today was the half way point of our holiday, so no matter what we needed to turn around at some point – though as we had gone up the Wendover Arm and had a couple of short cruising days, then it needn’t be during the day. It was a bright sunny [...]

A recent post by Andrew of Granny Buttons reminded me I had taken some similar “curious cows” photo’s a few years ago when we were going through a lock. So intent where they with watching that I had time to get off the boat as it was rising in the lock to take several shots!

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So far I had worked out a good routine of doing my video-blogs. On the trips themselves its just a matter of setting the camera up and changing the battery every 2 hours (or just under) – this at least means it has minimal interference with the “holiday”; capturing the “video” doesn’t take over the [...]

Hmm, seems I missed a day out …
Tuesday 11th September 2007: A trip from Leighton Buzzard to Marsworth. It was a sunny morning and we didn’t set off straight away, but as it was quiet thought we may as well enjoy the sun in a leisurely cruise. There’s seems to be a big redevelopment going [...]