Narrowboat

Wednesday 12th September: Almost half way through our holiday, so maybe a trip down Aylesbury Arm. Hmm nope its locked - the dreaded Blue-Green Algae means only boats with moorings in the basin are allowed down! So much for the notices saying you just need to phone ahead.
Okay in reverse gear and turn to go [...]

I’ve been fascinated with time-lapse videos for many years, so the idea of producing one as a video diary of my holidays afloat seemed a great way of compressing an 8 or 10 hour days cruise into something people are able to watch. Once I’d found the equipment, a ricoh camera that takes shots at [...]

A little diversion. Sure I’ve not done the diary for the couple of days before, but this is an hours cruise!We stayed over at Marsworth and wasn’t planning to go down the Wendover Arm, mainly because my Nicholsons said you had to reverse the last section - its the 2005 edition. Not sure if its [...]

Monday 10th September 2007: Day three of my trip down the Grand Union, this time setting off just before Cosgrove to round below Milton Keynes. The camera was set up, and the diary in video is on youtube.
It was an overcast and windy morning, so we set off at 10am for Cosgrove, the village [...]