Narrowboat

I am, and have been for a while, a big chap. I’m fairly active in walking a bit and going to the gym a couple of times a week – mainly keeping ticking over, but no big effort. Once you get past 40, as I am, then its time to take things in hand deciding [...]

In May I posted a couple of videos comprising of my 10 hour cruise in a day from Cuckoo Wharf to the Engine Branch Canal going via Tame Valley, Walsall, Wednesbury Old, and Main Line canals. Whilst my old set up using a Ricoh R6 digital camera meant the videos translated as 1 hour cruise [...]

Yesterday we reached the Ponty on the Llangollen. The weather has been atrocious and on top of that the power adapter for my camera failed – they are not designed for 8 hour a day shoots for a week at a time So there will be no video of this cruise, still I’m sure I’ll [...]

Currently preparing to set off on our next boat trip. this time we are aiming to do the Llangollen canal and head down the Montgomery canal, before returning.

On the 16th March we were cruising through Birmingham, my previous post described our trip along the Tame Valley Canal, and now the diary continues. The cruise along the Tame Valley was very straight forward, and at the junction we turned south towards Pudding Green Junction. Last July we had taken the TVC route and [...]